On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:54:07AM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote: > 3. Limitations > > The usefulness of a URI or IRI using a literal scoped address is > obviously limited to systems within the same scope. The addition of > the zone identifier further limits the usefulness to the system on > which the URI or IRI was generated, since zone IDs are completely > local to a given host. Therefore, care must be taken to not pass > these URIs between systems.
This phrase "passing URIs between systems" never made me really happy. I believe there are valid reasons to pass even URIs with zone IDs. The point is I think that the interpretation of such URIs is only meaningful on a given system or set of systems which understand the semantics of the zone ID. Looking at the SNMP URI as an example: It might be totally OK to have a manager which understands the zones within a network and which sends a properly constructed URI including a zone ID to a box for consumption on that box. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder International University Bremen <http://www.eecs.iu-bremen.de/> P.O. Box 750 561, 28725 Bremen, Germany -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
