[10206] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Tue Aug 13 15:07:30 1996
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 12:07:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
To: anthony baxter <anthony.baxter@aaii.oz.au>
Cc: Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet <galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl>, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <199608100746.RAA12801@alamein>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Sat, 10 Aug 1996, anthony baxter forwarded an IPwg mailing list message from
huitema@pax.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) which said:
> As for URLs, maybe the same solution should apply, i.e. somehow quote the
> IPv6 address between braces that tell you "this is an IPv6 address".
>
> No, for URLs the correct answer is to do nothing. There is no
> need at all for a URL to contain a literal address, under any
> circumstances (IPv6 or IPv4).
Of course there is a need: when one is trying to connect to a server which is
not mapped in DNS yet, when trying to connect from a machine without the
ability to do DNS resolution, when trying to connect to a machine without
having to rely upon a DNS map which may be under a different political
situation, etc... Anyways, it would be difficult to imagine working effectively
under this.
I think the suggestion of "," as the separator is best.
Brian
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