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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Wed, 02 April 2003 16:41 UTC

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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 11:36:51 -0500
From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: moore@cs.utk.edu, spencer_dawkins@yahoo.com, ietf@ietf.org, ipv6-fb@microsoft.com
Subject: Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
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> > > There was some discussion about this deprecation as the
> > > Techpreviews (Win2k/NT4) did support literal url's.
> > > The XP version and up though won't support it to overcome
> > > one major 'problem': website 'designers' embedding IP's
> > > inside websites to 'speed things up' (go figure).
> > 
> > perfectly reasonable thing to do.  browsers that don't support it
> > are broken.
> 
> It's perfectly reasonable to not support RFC2732? or?

it's perfectly reasonable for sites to use address literals in URLs
referenced by their web pages.

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