Re: #1047 Path-identity: A proposal (perhaps)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On torsdag, juni 30, 2005 08:26:25 -0700 John Stanley <stanley@xxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > There are only 3 ways I see to get rid of the : character:
>
> > - Stop putting domain-literals in Path: at all (seems unacceptable)
> > - Encode IPv6 addresses differently (seems unacceptable)
> > - Treat IPv6 and IPv4 differently (seems unacceptable)
>
> > If you've eliminated the impossible, what you're left with.....
>
> How did we leap from "seems unacceptable" to "impossible"?

sorry, I was quoting Sherlock Holmes without using quotation marks.... the 
full sentence is "when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, 
however improbable, must be the truth" - see 
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes> for references.

> Let's see. We're stuck with legacy apps that are unlikely to change their
> method of parsing a Path header overnight, all based on a pesky colon. But
> the "standard" means of representing an IPv6 address uses colons. What do
> we do?
>
> Hmmm. How about simply eliminating the colons (and the effects) from the
> IPv6 address literal? Bingo -- a 16 character "path-identity" without
> any punctuation. No need for the :: shorthand, people aren't typing it in
> over and over again.

That's option 2 above, one particular variant. Any callers?
(It was tried when discussing IPv6 literals in URIs. Lost there.)