IPv6 address/port format

[Harold Gutch]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 02:06:52AM -0500, 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

I don't like the slash ('/'), since it's used to to seperate the
base network address and the relevant number of bits in IPv4
(e.g. 192.168.10.0/24 isn't the same as 192.168.10.0:24).
That dot-colon idea looks much better to me.

bye,
  Harold

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