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Re: Next steps for rfc6874bis

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 01 August 2021 22:37 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Recurrent issue: ================

    > 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?

If it means that we can get the browser people onboard, then I'm open to
doing this.

Looking at my keyboard and thinking about shells and globs,
I see other possibilities as: "=", "+", ";", ",". Maybe "!"
But, I don't think we have to pick one until we have the bigger discussion.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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