Re: Next steps for rfc6874bis

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 03-Aug-21 10:05, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Brian E Carpenter wrote on 01/08/2021 23:17:
>> During the original discussion in 2012, and again recently, it
>> was suggested to change the delimiter from "%" to something else.
>> (The discussion in 2012 suggested "-", e.g. http://[fe80::abcd-en1].)
>> This was rejected in 2012 because it "Requires all IPv6 address
>> literal parsers and generators to be updated in order to allow
>> simple cut and paste; inconsistent with existing tools and practice."
>>
>> Do we want to revisit this?
> 
> Definitely, but can we deal with more tractable issues first, e.g. 
> global warming, slaac vs dhcpv6, world peace, etc?

Since nobody has argued against Nick, can we put this issue to one
side (as we did 9 years ago)? If we do that, we can have a fairly
straightforward discussion with the URI and browser community,
focusing entirely on % vs %25.

   Brian

>> Major issue:
>> ============
>>
>> Should it be fe00::abcd%25eth0 or fe80::%eth0 ?
> 
>  From the worm's-eye view, I'd prefer "%" instead of "%25". As you point 
> out, we need input from the browser wonks this one, as it's largely 
> their turf.
> 
> Nick
>