On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:31:24PM -0700, Stuart Cheshire wrote:
> At the meeting in Vancouver, Dave Thaler made a point that I found
> convincing:
> 
> Where is the character set for IPv6 zone IDs specified? If we accept
> that future interface names might include non-roman characters, then
> we have to assume that to allow safe unambiguous use in URIs,
> interface names have to undergo escaping.
> 
> And if the interface name itself is going to be escaped using URI "%xx"
> notation, then why not escape the '%' the same way?
> 
> This argues in support of what Microsoft already did: Encode '%' as
> "%25".
> 
> It's not my favourite outcome, but based on Dave Thaler's comment,
> it's the one that gets my vote.

+1
 
/js

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