[10216] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fisher Mark)
Thu Aug 15 22:11:40 1996
From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>
To: kpyee <kpyee@aw.sgi.com (Ka-Ping Yee)>
Cc: "anthony.baxter" <anthony.baxter@aaii.oz.au>, brian <brian@organic.com>,
galactus <galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl>, www-talk <www-talk@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 96 13:03:00 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
>> Any more opinions? Speak now or forever hold your peace...
>
>I prefer either a '.' or '::'. Reason: It doesn't make any
>more characters 'special'.
I agree, with some bias towards '.' (just because it lexes slightly easier).
If anyone has information from the IPv6 working group as to why they picked
':' over the '.' used in IPv4, could you please post it to the www-talk
list?
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Mark Leighton Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN
