Re: Allowing IP addresses as path-identiites (Re: #1047 Path field delimiters and syntax - status)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 6. september 2005 13:46 -0400 "Forrest J. Cavalier III" 
<forrest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> YES - IP addresses should be allowed as path-identity.
> NO - IP addresses should not be allowed as path-identity.
>
> I think these poll choices are poorly specified.
>
> I say MUST ACCEPT, MUST NOT generate.  Is that YES or NO?

Shucks, I forgot "none of the above" as a choice.....
Are you talking about components of the path, or about identities that can 
appear in Xref: and Injection-info:?

I haven't yet seen anyone claim to have seen an IP address in Xref: in the 
wild, and Injection-info: isn't implemented (AFAIK) by anyone yet, so I 
don't see any reason to do a MUST ACCEPT.
But YMMV.

            Harald

> And if it matters here, I think all diagnostics should start
> with ".keyword.", such as  "!.mismatch.10.0.0.1".

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