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Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Thu, 17 November 2011 05:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs
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On Nov 17, 2011, at 13:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Do people agree that this is a reasonable thing to do? 

Yes please!

I trust that the update spec will explain the "for debugging" focus and will have appropriate warning 

-- that the link identifiers are node-local names with node-local semantics, and 
-- about security considerations, e.g., that this capability might be used to send packets to random links from malicious web pages unless properly restricted in a browser.

Grüße, Carsten

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