Hello,

Please see inline.

Vijay K. Gurbani wrote:
> Folks: Before the Dallas IETF, I had sent an email to gauge
> consensus on whether the "received" parameter should have the
> delimiters '[' and ']' when its content is an IPv6 address.
> That is:
> 
>    Via: SIP/2.0/TCP foo.example.com;received=[2001::db8];branch=...
> 
> versus:
> 
>    Via: SIP/2.0/TCP foo.example.com;received=2001::db8;branch=...
> 
> RFC 3261 ABNF indicates the latter; i.e., without the delimiters.
> However, there is some precedence for encapsulating literal IPv6
> addresses in square brackets when it is contained in a URL (see
> RFC 2732).  Furthermore, having a '[' is much amenable to the
> parser since one can know at the outset that the received parameter
> contains an IPv6 address.  The SIP IPv6 torture test draft has
> the received encapsulated in the square brackets (see
> draft-sipping-gurbani-ipv6-sip-02).
> 
> Can folks who have IPv6 implementations kindly post what their
> behavior is?

Using the '[' and ']' delimiters also has the advantage of using the 
colon symbol as the separator for port specification, if that's necessary:

Via: SIP/2.0/UDP [2001::db8]:5060;branch=z9hG4bK13690

> Also, does anyone know how reSIProcate treats this?
> With the SIPit coming up, I would like to see if we can reach a
> consensus on this.  It would be good to know how the implementations
> are treating this.
> 
> The link to my original post is given below, followed by another
> link to a followup post on why having the IPv6 encapsulated in
> square brackets may be more consistent with expectations.
> 
> http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipping/current/msg10341.html
> http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/sipping/current/msg10373.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - vijay
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Dmitry Akindinov -- Stalker Labs.
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