- From: by way of Martin Duerst <margaret@thingmagic.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 23:06:19 +0900
- To: public-iri@w3.org
Hi Martin, Is there a new version of the IRI spec available that contains this note? If so, I will check it and remove my discuss. Thanks! Margaret At 8:07 AM +0900 11/30/04, Martin Duerst wrote: >I have not heard from anybody about this issue, and I'm therefore >closing it. > >Regards, Martin. > >At 17:01 04/11/16, Martin Duerst wrote: >> >>This is issue zoneid-48 at >>http://www.w3.org/International/iri-edit/Overview.html#zoneid-48. >> >>Margaret Wasserman, in her 'discuss' at >>https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/pidtracker.cgi?command=print_ballot&ballot_id=737&filename=draft-duerst-iri, >>brought up the question of how IPv6 Zone IDs would >>be represented in IRIs. After detailled discussion involving several >>members of the IESG as well as several other experts, I think the >>following were the conclusions we arrived at: >>[please don't ask me what Zone IDs are :-] >> >>1) This is an issue that affects both the URI and the IRI spec, and >> should be fixed in parallel. >>2) Given that use of Zone IDs will be rare (even rarer than use of >> IPv6 literals in general) in URIs and IRIs, and given that >> the IESG has already approved the URI draft, it seems unreasonable >> to hold back these drafts. >>3) To make clear that Zone IDs are not handled (directly) by the current >> syntax, a sentence should be added to both the URI and the IRI draft >> to say so. Such a sentence will be added (as far as I understand) >> during the "Author's 24 hour review" period for the URI draft. >> For the IRI draft, I have added the sentence "This syntax does not >> support IPv6 scoped addressing zone identifiers." at the end of >> section 2.2. This tentatively closes this issue as far as this draft >> is concerned. >>4) Even though the use of Zone IDs in URIs/IRIs shoud be very rare, >> because Zone IDs are really local to a specific machine, there are >> possible usage scenarios, in particular for configuration and network >> management, that make it worthwhile to define a syntax for Zone IDs >> in URIs/IRIs. >>5) A new Internet Draft is being written by Bill Fenner and me to >> propose a syntax for Zone IDs in URIs/IRIs. We haven't figured >> out every detail yet, but I expect a submission soon. The basic >> idea of the draft is to use the IPvFuture production, which would >> lead to e.g. http://[v6.fe80::1234_1]/path/file.html. The main >> technical detail to be resolved is the choice of separator for >> the ZoneID. The above example uses an '_'. I expect that we will >> announce this draft on uri@w3.org, but not on this list, because >> it is a generic URI syntax issue. >> >> >>Regards, Martin.
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