"Vijay K. Gurbani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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=...

<snip>

> Can folks who have IPv6 implementations kindly post what their
> behavior is?  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 RNID stack doesn't allow IPv6 stuff yet because of a limit of the socket
library it uses, but it does support IPv6 addresses.

It's not onerous to the developer to use IPv6 addresses in the received
param (i.e., to leave out the []s), and as Adam Roach pointed out, the
grammar's unambiguous.

frank

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