query re IPv6 URL format

Brian E Carpenter brian@hursley.ibm.com
Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:48:45 +0100


That may turn out to be the best way - Larry Masinter
also suggested this. In fact ipv6addr doesn't need to be
a real domain name - it's just a token for the URL parser.

  Brian

>- Quaizar Vohra said:
> 
> 
> How about defining a DNS domain ipv6addr and
> allowing an IPv6 address x1:x2:x3:x4:x5:x6:x7:x8 to be typed as
> a dns name x1.x2.x3.x4.x5.x6.x7.x8.ipv6addr.
> 
> Disclaimer : I am very ignorant about DNS.
> 
> Quaizar
>