Protocol Action: Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's to Proposed Standard
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Fri, 15 October 1999 13:59 UTC
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Subject: Protocol Action: Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's to Proposed Standard
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:53:22 -0400
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's' <draft-ietf-ipngwg-url-literal-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the IPNG Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Erik Nordmark and Thomas Narten. Technical Summary This document defines the preferred format for literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's for implementation in World Wide Web browsers. This format has been implemented in the IPv6 versions of several widely deployed browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Lynx. It is also intended to be used in the IPv6 version of the service location protocol. This document incudes an update to the generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers defined in RFC 2396. It defines a syntax for IPv6 addresses and allows the use of "[" within a URI explicitly or this reserved purpose. Working Group Summary There have been several attempts to get a format for embedding literal IPv6 addresses within URLs. All suffer from the problem that they use special characters that are objectionable to some group (i.e., they are also reserved characters in other contexts and must consequently be escaped in such environments). Thus, there appears to be no solution that appeals to everyone. The format specified in this document is deemed the least worst solution of those that have been proposed and there was strong (though rough) consensus to that effect. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Thomas Narten and Erik Nordmark.