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Re: Next steps for rfc6874bis

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 16 August 2021 20:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: Next steps for rfc6874bis
To: Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-7@u-1.phicoh.com>, ipv6@ietf.org
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 17-Aug-21 04:21, Philip Homburg wrote:
> In your letter dated Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:13:10 +0100 you wrote:
>> Given the IETF's general reluctance to deprecate standards, the most 
>> likely outcome of this suggestion would be that both "%" and "-" would 
>> need to be supported indefinitely.  This would be a regression.
> 
> I disagree. Yes, mistakes result in cruft. But that is not a good reason
> to continue with the mistake.

It isn't even obvious that this was a mistake. If you accept Andrew
Cady's argument, it was not a mistake at all. (The mistake was in
assuming that percent-encoding of "%" is required, by Andrew's
argument.) As Bob says, we need to hear from the browser people.
The next version of the draft will set this out as an open issue.

    Brian

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