query re IPv6 URL format

[Steve Deering]

At 2:07 AM -0700 10/14/97, Francis Dupont wrote:
> => I believe the agreement is to implement only the name format
> for URL and X11 displays (in both cases hexadecimal litteral addresses
> break the whole thing). I know there is something similar in IETF minutes
> for RFC 822 (ie bc@[194.196.110.160] has no equivalent for IPv6).
> It is not a problem because IPv6 litterals are not for humans, ie
> not very suitable for good user interfaces...

I thought the decision was to express the IPv6 address in hexadecimal
without the ":"s, i.e., just 32 contiguous hex digits, which is even
less user-friendly than the standad represenatation, but at least
usable by humans in a pinch and certainly usable by automatons.

Steve