Hi,
I have one question. The I-D restricts zoneid names to 15 characters:
ZoneID = 1*15unreserved
This raises the question why limiting this to 15 characters. I know
that at my Linux and MacOS X boxes have this limit (and I would not be
surprised if BSDs do as well) but at the end it is a #define. So the
question is whether this limit should be hard coded in the URI format.
Looking at RFC 3986, I see
reg-name = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims )
or
port = *DIGIT
and it appears there is no limit in the URI format on DNS names or
port numbers (even though today's DNS and transport protocols put
limits on those things).
/js
PS: I am asking this question because there is a MIB object ifName
that has a limit of 255 ASCII characters (I assume basically due
to SNMP constraints) and there is a YANG module in the making
which currently allows 255 UTF-8 characters and I think it would
be nice to think a moment about how these things fit together.
PS: RFC 3493 only says there is a constant IF_NAMESIZE - so the socket
API does not really say what the interface name size limit really
is.
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Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
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