- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:01:37 +0900
- To: public-iri@w3.org
- Cc: Margaret Wasserman <margaret@thingmagic.com>, Ted Hardie <hardie@qualcomm.com>, Roy T.Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
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.
Received on Tuesday, 16 November 2004 09:03:16 UTC