Re: IPv6 address/port format
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Chris P. Ross wrote:
> >"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <dlitz@cheerful.com> said:
> >> I'm not really knowledgeable about this, but what is a good, standard way
> >> to show address/port shown in IPv4, IPv6, IPX, etc? I would think
> >> address.:port (dot-colon) would be good (and it already works with domain
> >> names), but I haven't seen this done yet.
> >
> >> Any thoughts?
> >
> > I've seen people use both "IPv6-addr port" (space sep.) and
> >"IPv6-addr/port". I think I really like using '/', and haven't yet
> >found a place where that will cause problems except for in URIs.
> >Using spaces is just universally compliated. I guess we could use
> >something like '%', but then again, me randomly proposing things here
> >is probabaly not the best place to make suggestions usefully. ;-)
>
> '%' has a special meaning in URLs for escaping other characters.
>
> ':' is used in specifying IP addresses by number for IPv6 so probably is a
> bad idea.
>
> What about '+'?
What about rfc2732? It is on the standards track, to boot.
<URL: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2732.txt>
is but one of many locations.
Anand
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