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Re: IPv6 Zone Identifiers Considered Hateful

2012-03-22 17:28:05
On 2012-03-23 05:48, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote:
...

In regard to URIs:

People have spoken about the annoyance of using "%" to introduce the
zone identifier, and the fact that "%" is special in URIs and would
need escaping, etc.  But (1) it's unlikely anyone will write URIs with
zone identifiers, since they'd only be usable on a single host, and
(2) the syntax of RFC 3986 ("Uniform Resource Identifier (URI):
Generic Syntax") does not provide for specifying zone identifers on
IPv6 addresses.  Indeed, it says "This syntax does not support IPv6
scoped addressing zone identifiers."

This is a current topic in 6man so it may change.

   Brian