Re: URL parsing and IPv6 addresses

>> Any more opinions?  Speak now or forever hold your peace...
>
>I prefer either a '.' or '::'.  Reason: It doesn't make any
>more characters 'special'.

I agree, with some bias towards '.' (just because it lexes slightly easier).

If anyone has information from the IPv6 working group as to why they picked 
':' over the '.' used in IPv4, could you please post it to the www-talk 
list?
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Mark Leighton Fisher                   Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com                   Indianapolis, IN

Received on Thursday, 15 August 1996 22:05:13 UTC