---- Original Message ----- From: "Juergen Schoenwaelder" <[email protected]> To: "Brian E Carpenter" <[email protected]> Cc: "6man" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 7:34 PM > On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:33:07PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > I'm not exactly seeing overwhelming consensus, but the loudest > > virtual hum was for > > > > http://[fe80::a-en1] > > > > Advantage: allows use of browser. > > Disadvantage: doesn't allow simple cut and paste. > > > > There was a suggestion to encourage a fix to ping (and traceroute?) to > > allow the "-" separator, and we must note that in any case, strange > > characters in the interface ID will always have to be %-encoded. > > I am concerned that the long-term result of this might be that we will > have to live with both % and - used as separators in various tools and > interfaces and that this might at the end even cause changes to other > tools and specifications that currently are just fine with using % as > a separator. Perhaps I am overly anxious but only future will tell.
Yes, over the long term I could well see the use of % fading away, but I would regard that as a good thing:-) Tom Petch > /js > > -- > Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH > Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany > Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
