Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

[Ted Hardie <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Brian E Carpenter
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>> but the use of a "%" that is not used in escaping is contrary to the basic URI
>> syntax--this is made clear in Section 2.4 of RFC 3986; changing that would
>> require a major re-write to URI parsers.
>
> I am probably stupid, but that wasn't clear to me when reading 3986.
> Of course it's clear that an actual URI on the wire needs to contain %25.
> Anyway, I am completely convinced that the downside of using %25 is much
> greater than the upside, so I believe we should revert to "_" as in
> Bill's draft.

I think "_" will cause much less heartburn; it may still require
special casing, but
of a much simpler type.

<snip>
> It has presumably never been released by the list moderator. But in any
> case, I suggest delaying the review until we have a new version after the
> recent discussion.
>

Makes sense to delay the formal review.  You might want to give a short
heads-up to the APPS area meeting/working group on Monday of the IETF
week, if you have a candidate solution based on a combination of your
and Bill's drafts.  That will likely catch the right folks to look for other URI
gotchas.

regards,

Ted