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Literal addresses in URLs - 'splain to me

Subject: Literal addresses in URLs - 'splain to me
From: [email protected] ([email protected])
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:21:24 -0400
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:02:52 EDT." <[email protected]>

>I would like someone to explain to me exactly why disallowing literal
>addresses in IPv6 URLs should not be allowed.  (Kind of a double negative,
>sorry.)  I mean, I'm advocating that we bar them from URLs and nothing
>else.  Typing "ping aaaa:bbbb::cc:d" from a console or anything is just
>fine, but why work so hard to find a way to use them as URLs?  I'm just not
>seeing it ...

I agree outlaw them for IPv6.  This is very intelligent input.    

/jim

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