Re: Reopening RFC6874?

Kerry Lynn <kerlyn@ieee.org> Thu, 17 June 2021 00:15 UTC

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From: Kerry Lynn <kerlyn@ieee.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:15:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: Reopening RFC6874?
To: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 7:58 PM Brian E Carpenter <
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is probably necessary to re-open RFC6874 "Representing IPv6 Zone
> Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers."
>
> Here's the problem. Web browsers do not correctly support Link Local
> literal addresses, because they cannot parse the zone identifier (aka the
> interface identifier).
>
> There are of course no "average user" use cases for this, but there are
> several technical use cases. Rather than trying to summarise them, I refer
> you to the Firefox bug thread about this, which has been open for 10 years:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999
> Officially it's status is WONTFIX, but every year or two discussion
> restarts.
>
> There's also an issue at WHATWG: https://github.com/whatwg/url/issues/392
>
> My conclusion from the latest round of discussion of those two threads is
> that if we don't update RFC6874, nothing will change. So I propose that we
> do update RFC6874. As far as I can tell, the main issue is as follows:
>
> The security considerations say:
>
> >    An HTTP client, proxy, or other intermediary MUST remove any ZoneID
> >    attached to an outgoing URI, as it has only local significance at the
> >    sending host.
>
> There is also non-normative text saying:
>
> >    However,
> >    URIs including a ZoneID have no meaning outside the originating node.
> >    It would therefore be highly desirable for a browser to remove the
> >    ZoneID from a URI before including that URI in an HTTP request.
>
> As I understand it, those requirements are considered unreasonable and
> too hard to code by browser implementors. Also, there is a use case
> that Andrew Cardy can describe better than me where the deletion of the
> Zone ID breaks a higher-level protocol. (CUPS printing; Michael Sweet
> raised the issue on this list 8 years ago.)
>
> Would the WG be interested in taking up this work? I think most of it
> would consist of using the "delete" key on RFC6874.
>
> Hi Brian,

Am I correct in assuming that no implementation will proceed without
WHATWG's
approval? In the event, we might first try to initiate a conversation with
them to
explain why this functionality would be useful and see if there's a
solution they
would find acceptable.

Cheers, Kerry

Regards
>    Brian Carpenter
>
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