Thanks Tom, this is new to me. I don't understand
where the 'decimal' hint comes from, given that the
practice has always been to use alphanumerics.

Does anyone know if this is actually used, and if so, how?

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 2012-02-04 02:47, t.petch wrote:
> Brian
> 
> Did you look at the INET-ADDRESS-MIB when preparing this? I ask because it
> defines [RFC4001] a 4 byte zone index; and a display hint of 'd' is decimal:-)
> 
> "InetAddressIPv6z ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
>     DISPLAY-HINT "2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x:2x%4d"
>     DESCRIPTION
>         "Represents a non-global IPv6 network address, together
>          with its zone index:
> 
>            Octets   Contents         Encoding
>             1-16    IPv6 address     network-byte order
>            17-20    zone index       network-byte order
> 
>          The corresponding InetAddressType value is ipv6z(4).
> 
>          The zone index (bytes 17-20) is used to disambiguate
>          identical address values on nodes that have interfaces
>          attached to different zones of the same scope.  The zone index
>          may contain the special value 0, which refers to the default
>          zone for each scope.
>     SYNTAX       OCTET STRING (SIZE (20))
> 
> Tom Petch
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tomoyuki Sahara" <[email protected]>
> To: "6man" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 2:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Reviews requested: draft-carpenter-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Brian E Carpenter
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Uniform Resource Identifiers
>>>
>>> We'd like feedback on this. In particular, which of the two options
>>> proposed do people prefer?
>> OPTION 2 seems better to me.
>> It's easier to implement.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tomoyuki
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