Re: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-6man-rfc6874bis-00.txt

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

Michael,

Below...
On 07-Jul-21 01:32, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Nico Schottelius <[e-mail]> wrote:
>     > While copy & paste won't work with this proposal, I believe the %25
>     > escape should be "good enough" for most daily usage.
> 
> Also, ping and/or getaddrinfo() could become tolerant of %25 as a special
> case (and given that few Windows machines have 25 interfaces), which would
> let the copy&paste work the other way.
> 
>     > In this regard, as a network operator, I can support this direction to
>     > better have a, rather than no solution.
> 
>     > In a perfect world, the [...%] syntax would have been introduced (and
>     > accepted) prior to % escape in URLs.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>     > Another direction, which is probably also very unlikely to achieve,
>     > would be to change the delimiter on OS basis and harmonise it with the
>     > browser.
> 
> We could document another deliminter as a recommendation transition.
> Looking at my keyboard, it's hard to pick one.   Only $ comes to mind.

We did talk about that nine years ago (and used a hyphen as the example). See
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-carpenter-6man-rfc6874bis-00.html#appendix-A-3.3.1

   Brian