IPv6 address/port format

[Chris Brown]

I would tend twords using dot-colon for host:port combinations, and
dot-slash for network/bits for two reasons.  This first is that this
is already common practice in IPv4. The second reason is that using
the same notation for two different but related purposes would
eventually lead to confusion.

Chris

> 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
> 
> -- 
> Someone should do a study to find out how many human life spans have
> been lost waiting for NT to reboot.
>               Ken Deboy on Dec 24 1999 in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
>