Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-23 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
From: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com To: François-Xavier Le Bail fx.leb...@yahoo.com Cc: Kerry Lynn kerlyn2...@gmail.com; Tomoyuki Sahara sah...@surt.net; 6man ipv6@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs On 2011-11

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-19 05:03, François-Xavier Le Bail wrote: ... In Linux, you can use any character in VLAN interface name : examples: ip link add link eth0 name eth0.5 type vlan id 5 ip link add link eth0 name eth0-6 type vlan id 6 ip link add link eth0 name eth0#7 type vlan id 7 ip link add

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-18 15:27, Tomoyuki Sahara 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) ] That's one option; another one is to

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-18 Thread Kerry Lynn
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

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-18 Thread Brian Haberman
On 11/17/11 9:27 PM, Tomoyuki Sahara wrote: - 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 Published as RFC 4007 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4007). Regards, Brian

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-18 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
From: François-Xavier Le Bail fx.leb...@yahoo.com To: Kerry Lynn kerlyn2...@gmail.com; Tomoyuki Sahara sah...@surt.net From: Kerry Lynn kerlyn2...@gmail.com To: Tomoyuki Sahara sah...@surt.net On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Tomoyuki Sahara

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-17 Thread Kerry Lynn
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Carsten Bormann c...@tzi.org wrote: On Nov 17, 2011, at 13:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Do people agree that this is a reasonable thing to do? Yes please! My ABNF is pretty rusty, so I offer the following extension to the RFC 3986 IPv6address rule only as

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-17 Thread Brian Haberman
On 11/17/11 12:00 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dear 6man, Kerry and I talked about this. It seems to me that, given we allow for IPv6 literals in URIs principally for diagnostic purposes, it is indeed unfortunate that http://[fe80::206:98ff:fe00:232%tap0] is not allowed by the formal

RE: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-17 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
Yes from me. Thanks. Bert -Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 12:00 AM To: 6man Cc: Kerry Lynn Subject: Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs Dear 6man, Kerry and I talked about

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-17 Thread Tomoyuki Sahara
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

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dear 6man, Kerry and I talked about this. It seems to me that, given we allow for IPv6 literals in URIs principally for diagnostic purposes, it is indeed unfortunate that http://[fe80::206:98ff:fe00:232%tap0] is not allowed by the formal syntax. This would need to be fixed by a small RFC that

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 17, 2011, at 13:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Do people agree that this is a reasonable thing to do? Yes please! I trust that the update spec will explain the for debugging focus and will have appropriate warning -- that the link identifiers are node-local names with node-local

Re: Link-local IPv6 addresses in URIs

2011-11-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Kerry, On 2011-11-14 18:41, Kerry Lynn wrote: Greetings, I've noticed that a bug has re-appeared in Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700999 In older versions of Firefox (e.g. 3.6.23) it is possible to enter URIs of the form http://[fe80::206:98ff:fe00:232%tap0] in