On 2012-03-07 11:26, Carsten Bormann wrote: > On Mar 6, 2012, at 23:08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> Was there a real reason that you went for this? >> IPv6zone-id = 1*( unreserved / sub-delims / ":" ) > > I'm not Bill, but RFC 3986 says: > > IPvFuture = "v" 1*HEXDIG "." 1*( unreserved / sub-delims / ":" ) > > So you can't go outside that space without updating RFC3986.
That inserts a very ugly v6. at the front, which is definitely not what people want. The point is practical: we want to stick a zone ID on the end of an IPv6 literal. RFC 3986 is not sacred. Brian > I think the 2005 work hit the mark. Resurrect, publish, done. > > Grüße, Carsten > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
