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

"Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org> Wed, 02 April 2003 16:41 UTC

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From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
To: 'Keith Moore' <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Cc: 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...))
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 18:34:37 +0200
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Keith Moore [mailto:moore@cs.utk.edu] wrote:

> > 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?

Greets,
 Jeroen