On 2/4/12 2:11 AM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
At Fri, 3 Feb 2012 21:01:32 +0100, "t.petch"<[email protected]> wrote:My exposure to zoneids started with the installation of Windows 2000 Servers, but there was no SNMP involved there; I cannot recall if URI were in use, I think not, and the ids I saw were, I think, numeric. I did see that RFC4007 says that " Implementations choosing to follow the recommended basic API [10] will want to restrict their index values to those that can be represented by the sin6_scope_id field of the sockaddr_in6 structure." but I am not sure what that means, in terms of character set.(I've not read the the uri-zoneid draft, but anyway) In terms of RFC4007 zone indices are primarily numeric numbers. Only in the textual representation of<address>%<zone_id>, and only optionally for convenience, the zone_id part can be a more human-understandable form, such as an network interface name that can uniquely identify the corresponding zone in the context of<address>%<zone_id>.
The zone ID information included in the InetAddressIPv6z object in RFC 4001 was modeled after the description of the zone ID in RFC 4007. As Jinmei points out, the user friendly name is mapped to an easily indexed interface number to determine the actual zone.
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