Re: Options for draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid

---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Juergen Schoenwaelder" <j.schoenwaelder@jacobs-university.de>
To: "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Cc: "6man" <ipv6@ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 7:34 PM
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 03:33:07PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > I'm not exactly seeing overwhelming consensus, but the loudest
> > virtual hum was for
> > 
> >    http://[fe80::a-en1]
> > 
> > Advantage: allows use of browser.
> > Disadvantage: doesn't allow simple cut and paste.
> > 
> > There was a suggestion to encourage a fix to ping (and traceroute?) to
> > allow the "-" separator, and we must note that in any case, strange
> > characters in the interface ID will always have to be %-encoded.
> 
> I am concerned that the long-term result of this might be that we will
> have to live with both % and - used as separators in various tools and
> interfaces and that this might at the end even cause changes to other
> tools and specifications that currently are just fine with using % as
> a separator. Perhaps I am overly anxious but only future will tell.

Yes, over the long term I could well see the use of % fading away,
but I would regard that as a good thing:-)

Tom Petch

> /js
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