Re: IPv6 addresses within URLs

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Larry Masinter wrote:

> draft-ietf-ipngwg-aaaa-00.txt
> 
> proposes another method which would work for including IPv6 addresses:
> 
>    An IPv6 address is represented as a name in the IP6.INT domain by a
>    sequence of nibbles separated by dots with the suffix ".IP6.INT". The
>    sequence of nibbles is encoded in reverse order, i.e. the low-order
>    nibble is encoded first, followed by the next low-order nibble and so
>    on. Each nibble is represented by a hexadecimal digit. For example,
>    the inverse lookup domain name corresponding to the address
> 
>        4321:0:1:7:3:4:567:89ab
> 
>    would be
> 
> b.a.9.8.7.6.5.0.4.0.0.0.3.0.0.0.7.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4.IP6.INT.

If that was

	89ab.567.4.3.7.1.0.4321.something

it would look okay, but as above it's definitely too lengthy.

I agree with many of the points John Klensin has mentionned.

For "addresses will frequently change", however, I guess (without
much in-depth knowledge) that while some addresses will indeed
change very frequently, others might me much more stable and
long-term, especially for example the addresses of some DNS
servers,... And it's these that have the greatest chance of
being used in URLs.


Regards,	Martin.