On 2012-05-10 11:39, t.petch wrote: > ---- 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:-)
Would you want this to be stated as a formal update to RFC 4007? Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
