[10194] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Koen Holtman)
Wed Aug 7 22:08:00 1996
From: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
To: bookwyrm@agii.solluna.org (Kim)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 14:53:35 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, david@ufl.edu, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199608062344.TAA06393@agii.solluna.org> from "Kim" at Aug 6, 96 07:44:07 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Kim:
>Earlier, <Larry Masinter> inscribed:
>>
>> 1) dotted decimal with 8 parts instead of 4
>> 2) string of hex with no punctuation
>
>I would think compliance with the IPv6 RFC on IPv6 address representation
>would not be a bad thing. My inclination is still to use a second "::"
>to separate the port, [...]
Another idea would be to use a dot as the separator:
http://1080::8:800:200C:417A.8000/blah
This seems more easy to parse, and is compliant with the IPv6 address
representation in a mildly satirical way.
Koen.
