Return-Path: owner-ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com Received: from mailserver1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de (root@mailserver1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de [130.83.126.41]) by sun14.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de (8.7.1/8.7.1.2pm+udb) with ESMTP id PAA27735 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:59:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by mailserver1.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA24223 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:58:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.146.1.13]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA04059; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:57:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunroof.eng.sun.com (sunroof.Eng.Sun.COM [129.146.168.88]) by engmail1.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/ENSMAIL,v1.6) with ESMTP id GAA09217; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by sunroof.eng.sun.com (8.10.0.Beta3+Sun/8.10.0.Beta3) id d9FDrb305750 for ipng-dist; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM (engmail4 [129.144.134.6]) by sunroof.eng.sun.com (8.10.0.Beta3+Sun/8.10.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id d9FDrPk05743 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.Sun.COM (venus.EBay.Sun.COM [129.150.69.5]) by engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1/ENSMAIL,v1.6) with ESMTP id GAA19519 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ietf.org (odin.ietf.org [132.151.1.176]) by venus.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA26398 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 06:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CNRI.Reston.VA.US (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietf.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1a) with ESMTP id JAA11198; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:53:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199910151353.JAA11198@ietf.org> To: IETF-Announce: ; Cc: RFC Editor Cc: Internet Architecture Board Cc: ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com From: The IESG Subject: Protocol Action: Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's to Proposed Standard Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:53:22 -0400 Sender: owner-ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com Precedence: bulk X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's' as a Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the IPNG Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Erik Nordmark and Thomas Narten. Technical Summary This document defines the preferred format for literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's for implementation in World Wide Web browsers. This format has been implemented in the IPv6 versions of several widely deployed browsers including Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Lynx. It is also intended to be used in the IPv6 version of the service location protocol. This document incudes an update to the generic syntax for Uniform Resource Identifiers defined in RFC 2396. It defines a syntax for IPv6 addresses and allows the use of "[" within a URI explicitly or this reserved purpose. Working Group Summary There have been several attempts to get a format for embedding literal IPv6 addresses within URLs. All suffer from the problem that they use special characters that are objectionable to some group (i.e., they are also reserved characters in other contexts and must consequently be escaped in such environments). Thus, there appears to be no solution that appeals to everyone. The format specified in this document is deemed the least worst solution of those that have been proposed and there was strong (though rough) consensus to that effect. Protocol Quality This document has been reviewed for the IESG by Thomas Narten and Erik Nordmark. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to majordomo@sunroof.eng.sun.com --------------------------------------------------------------------