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

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <> Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>chair hat on:

>it's "me-too" time.
>If you have an opinion of whether or not we should allow IP addresses as=20
>path-identities, either YES or NO, please speak up.

>YES - IP addresses should be allowed as path-identity.
>NO - IP addresses should not be allowed as path-identity.

YES

I don't want to encourage them, and I don't expect them to appear often,
if at all, and I support SHOULD NOT use them without good cause.

But you don't actually gain anything by forbidding them. The dead:beef
problem still remains (because IP addresses are still allowed as
diagnostics) and the syntax becomes a little more complicated.

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