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Re: Options for draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid

Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de> Tue, 08 May 2012 17:34 UTC

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Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 19:34:53 +0200
From: Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Options for draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid
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On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:33:07PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> I'm not exactly seeing overwhelming consensus, but the loudest
> virtual hum was for
> 
>    http://[fe80::a-en1]
> 
> Advantage: allows use of browser.
> Disadvantage: doesn't allow simple cut and paste.
> 
> There was a suggestion to encourage a fix to ping (and traceroute?) to
> allow the "-" separator, and we must note that in any case, strange
> characters in the interface ID will always have to be %-encoded.

I am concerned that the long-term result of this might be that we will
have to live with both % and - used as separators in various tools and
interfaces and that this might at the end even cause changes to other
tools and specifications that currently are just fine with using % as
a separator. Perhaps I am overly anxious but only future will tell.

/js

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