On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Tomoyuki Sahara <sah...@surt.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> That sounds good to me too.
>
> > My ABNF is pretty rusty, so I offer the following extension to the RFC
> 3986
> > IPv6address rule only as a starting point:
> > / "FE80::" [ *3( h16 ":" ) h16 ] [ "%" 1*4(ALPHA / DIGIT) ]
>
> I have some comments:
>
>  - An interface name may be longer than 4 characters.  But I know we should
>    have some limit so I suggest 15 because it's maximum length of interface
>    name on *BSD and Linux systems.
>
>  - FYI, there was an attempt to define textual representation of zone id:
>    http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipngwg-scoping-arch-04#section-12
>
>  - Can we have a dot in interface name?  On Linux systems, VLAN interfaces
>    have one.  An example in the draft above has "%pvc1.3" (may be an ATM
>    interface?).
>
> Thanks for the reference.  I'll take a look at it before revising the ABNF
again.

-K-

>
> Thanks,
> Tomoyuki.
>
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