Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-07 Thread Bill Fenner
On Mar 6, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On 2012-03-07 11:26, Carsten Bormann wrote: >> On Mar 6, 2012, at 23:08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> >>> Was there a real reason that you went for this? >>> IPv6zone-id = 1*( unreserved / sub-delims / ":" ) >> >> I'm not Bill, but RFC 3986 sa

Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2012-03-06 Thread Bill Fenner
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Carsten, > > On 2012-03-06 12:22, Carsten Bormann wrote: >> On Mar 6, 2012, at 00:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> >>> No, I think it's exactly *not* confused on this point. There's >>> a distinction between the idealised URI and the produc

Re: Questions on RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Fenner
2010/4/19 Tina TSOU : > In RFC 4293, > - ipAddressTable is described as writable, this table uses address > as index, but the critical information for configuring address, the > address prefix ipAddressPrefix node is read-only. It seems > contradict to me. Worse, the whole ipAddressPrefixTable is

Re: Questions on RFC 4293 Management Information Base for the Internet Protocol (IP)

2010-04-21 Thread Bill Fenner
[sorry if you get duplicates, replying from an address that actually *works* this time] 2010/4/19 Tina TSOU : > In RFC 4293, > - ipAddressTable is described as writable, this table uses address > as index, but the critical information for configuring address, the > address prefix ipAddressPrefix n

Re: RFC 4113: Is udpEndpointInstance persistent?

2006-06-06 Thread Bill Fenner
My off-the-cuff answer is that the udpEndpointInstance exists in order to distinguish between multiple UDP Endpoints that are otherwise identical, so its specific value doesn't matter at all (otherwise than that it's unique, which is required by the fact that it's in the INDEX). One imagined impl

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-02.txt

2005-11-04 Thread Bill Fenner
>My understanding is that we then made a consensus about >questions -1 and 0 with the answer of "YES", and hence this version. >(Is my understanding correct?) Yes. >Now I'm surprised to see the new version provides the answer to >questions 1-3 with removing alternatives. Have we already made a

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Fenner
>...I didn't understand the proposal >assumed additional requirements for URL/URI parsers, so I didn't >understand its usefulness. **If we can allow that**, I see this can >be useful, while it should be minor usage ... Certainly, it's envisioned to be a small niche, which is why I am not ready t

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-07-08 Thread Bill Fenner
>So, I guess the appropriate next step for this work is to make >consensus on this, which mostly equals to my question -1: > > -1. are we okay with forcing URL/URI parsers to understand the > detailed semantics of the scoped address syntax and to strip the > zone ID (+ delimiter) part b

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-04-04 Thread Bill Fenner
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:33:00 +0900, JINMEI Tatuya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Is my understanding now correct? Yes, that looks right. And even if getaddrinfo took whatever form directly (either the separator is '%' or getaddrinfo is modified to accept the URI character as well), I think it's reas

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-04-03 Thread Bill Fenner
>>>>>> On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 11:17:17 -0800, >>>>>> Bill Fenner said: >> Since this format is unique and is only used for scoped >> addresses, the application doesn't have to decide based on the address - >> it's already been told b

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-04-03 Thread Bill Fenner
>The essential point is, at least to me, is that we did not want to >force applications (like URI/URL parsers) to be aware of scope zones >and/or the dedicated syntax for scoped addresses. My reading was that we don't want applications to have to examine an arbitrary address and decide whether or

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Fenner
You're right, we were out of sync; >3. the parser passes "fe80::1_de0" to getaddrinfo(), and gets a > sockaddr_in6 structure (whose sin6_addr member is "fe80::1" and > sin6_scope_id member is the link ID corresponding to interface > "de0"). The browser uses the sockaddr_in6 structure with

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Fenner
>Then the browser (parser) implementation would first extract >"fe80::1_de0" and pass it to getaddrinfo(3) for converting it to an >IPv6 address. So far, so good, but then the browser would also need >to modify the entire URL to: > > http://[fe80::1]/ > >before sending it to the web server on th

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Fenner
> square bracket does not fit the RFC3986 abnf anyways. therefore, > i do not think addition of "v6." or use of "_" would really help. Please look again at the IP-Literal and IPvFuture productions. > i would say we should stick to current > http://[fe80::1%fxp0]:

Re: Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-03-29 Thread Bill Fenner
I usually think of the small home router configuration problem - buy a box, plug it in, it wants you to configure it using a web page, and it's probably fe80::1. I don't have any systems in my house that have fewer than two non-loopback interfaces. Since this is presumably a one-off, I guess the

Move forward with scoped literal URI format?

2005-03-28 Thread Bill Fenner
Dear all, At the IETF meeting in Minneapolis, I talked about the URI format for scoped addresses, described in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fenner-literal-zone-01.txt I had 3 questions prepared, but the time didn't really allow for asking them in a sensible way (and Dave Thaler

Update to A Format for IPv6 Scope Zone Identifiers in Literal URIs

2005-02-22 Thread Bill Fenner
FYI: I updated this draft based on the discussion on the ipv6 mailing list. There are still no strong conclusions. The discussion on the ipv6 list petered out after dropping the Cc: of the URI list and asking questions that people on the URI list would be best suited to answer. Perhaps this upd

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-00.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Fenner
Percent encoding in the host part is an idn/i18n extension only; the grammar is more permissive than the text. The text restricts percent-escaping to UTF-8 encoding of non-ASCII names. This was part of a significant rewrite of the grammar from an ad-hoc BNF to ABNF; see appendix D of draft-field

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-00.txt

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Fenner
The Full Standard URI spec (draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-07.txt) and the Proposed Standard IRI spec (draft-duerst-iri-11.txt) both specify percent-encoding in the host part, particularly for support of internationalization. It's a shame that the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list got dropped off of the cc l

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-00.txt

2004-12-06 Thread Bill Fenner
Good point. I replaced the last sentence with: Therefore, care must be taken to not pass these URIs blindly between systems. When both systems are aware of the relevant Zone IDs, e.g., an SNMP manager that is aware of the zone ID configuration of an agent, it is acceptable to pass these URIs be

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-00.txt

2004-12-05 Thread Bill Fenner
>p.s. I've noticed the draft-ietf-ipv6-scoping-arch-02.txt has been in >the RFC editor queue for over 3 months. Is anyone know whether this >is a usual delay or the issues with the URI syntax is working as a >showstopper? The RFCs that have been published over the last couple of months have had

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-00.txt

2004-12-05 Thread Bill Fenner
I've added the following pieces to the draft to try to capture the conversation so far. [at the end of section 2.1:] o Use '%' in the URI Pro: + "%" is the same character. + Can copy and paste between forms. Con: + '%' is fundamentally special in URIs

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-00.txt

2004-12-03 Thread Bill Fenner
>There were >100 e-mails on the ipng ML at December 1999 about the >representation. Actually we considered the all possible characters. >One reason to reject '_' was that it should be used for . There are very few messages (around 10) in the archive that actually discuss the specifics of delimit

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-fenner-literal-zone-00.txt

2004-12-02 Thread Bill Fenner
>> I agree that getting "cut and paste" is a big usability win. Does "_" >> create any other problems? > > You mean apart from it [not] being part of some character sets. I'm sorry, I have to plead ignorance; I thought all character sets (other than EBCDIC) were supersets of US-ASCII. I

Re: An Internet-Draft on literal scoped addresses with accompanying zone IDs in URIs

2004-11-19 Thread Bill Fenner
>I think loosing the ability to cut and paste these addresses is a >problem. The % is in widespread usage today. Indeed, that's why this whole thing is a sticky issue and there's no obvious answer. My FreeBSD and MacOS machines all use the % too, and have for years. >My dump question (that ex

An Internet-Draft on literal scoped addresses with accompanying zone IDs in URIs

2004-11-19 Thread Bill Fenner
Folks, When looking at the URI/IRI literal scoped address format (nee RFC 2732, now rolled into the uri/iri specs), we noticed that there was a small gap - you can't specify a zone ID. Since some implementations require a zone ID to connect to a possibly-ambiguous scoped address even if it's n