[10219] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Gillespie)
Fri Aug 16 11:23:17 1996
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:19:07 -0600 (MDT)
From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com>
To: www-talk <www-talk@w3.org>
In-Reply-To: <321383CD@MSMAIL.INDY.TCE.COM>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Fisher Mark wrote:
> >> 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?
Actually, using '.' is also backwards compatable, just change the URL
spec so that either '.' or ':' can be the port seperator on a IPv4 addr,
and a '.' will also work with v6. You know a v4 addr is a quad, so the
fifth seperation is going to be the port, ala:
0.0.0.0.80
The only problem from that point is figuring out if its a hostname or an
address :)
Frankly, I dont like the comma, its not visually correct/appealing.
-Brandon Gillespie-
