Re: [whatwg/url] Addressing HTTP servers over Unix domain sockets (#577)

@robin-aws 

`man 7 vsock`:
```
       The VSOCK address family facilitates communication between
       virtual machines and the host they are running on.
...
       A socket address is defined as a combination of a 32-bit Context
       Identifier (CID) and a 32-bit port number.  The CID identifies
       the source or destination, which is either a virtual machine or
       the host.  The port number differentiates between multiple
       services running on a single machine.
```
Casual inspection of this description from the man page reveals the terms "port number" and "host".  Then, referring to the *current* version of RFC 3968, I see:
```
 authority   = [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ]
 port        = *DIGIT
```
Rhetorically, what would happen if the VSOCK "host" were a URI "host" and a VSOCK "port number" were a URI "port" number?

Clearly, I'm not appreciating the actual problem there, since "host:port" is *already* defined in the RFC.  What is the actual problem?



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