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

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

On 10-Jul-21 16:00, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]> wrote:
>     > Brian E Carpenter wrote on 09/07/2021 22:10:
>     >> C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping ::1%0
>     >>
>     >> Pinging ::1 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from ::1: time<1ms
>     >>
>     >> so I guess interface 0 is the loopback, but it is listed nowhere as
>     >> such.
> 
>     > this really is odd. The loopback interface is technically interface 1:
> 
> ::1 is not a link-local address.
> It gets routed as normal, and the scope-id is ignored, I think that "0" the
> scope-id which means, "I have no scope"

Correct, but as Nick said Windows seems very odd in this particular corner.

On July 6, 2012, Dave Thaler wrote:

>> You'll see at 
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385325(v=vs.85).aspx
>> that alternative 3 is what is supported in IE7 and above, and the APIs are generally
>> available to Windows applications (i.e. not just IE7).

[Alternative 3 at that time was the %25 encoding]

By a miracle that URL still works but the content was updated in 2018.

Since Edge apparently does not accept the zone index at all, Dave (in Bcc), do you wish to modify your statement from 9 years ago :-?.

   Brian