IPv6 address/port format

[Bill Sommerfeld]

> "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.

It's too easily confused with network prefixes.. (IPv6-addr/prefixlen).

How am I supposed to know whether 3ffe:1ce1:0:b5::1/64 should be
parsed as an <address,port> pair or as a network prefix?

						- Bill