query re IPv6 URL format

[Brian E Carpenter]

If that was the decision then we need to codify it and tell
the world. I could live with it, if the URL parsers can handle
it. I'll check that with the URL guys.

  Brian


>- Steve Deering said:
> 
> 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
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