Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers
draft-ietf-6man-rfc6874bis-09

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform Resource Identifiers' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-6man-rfc6874bis-02.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and Uniform
   Resource Identifiers'
  (draft-ietf-6man-rfc6874bis-02.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Erik Kline and Éric Vyncke.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rfc6874bis/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document describes how the zone identifier of an IPv6 scoped
   address, defined as <zone_id> in the IPv6 Scoped Address Architecture
   (RFC 4007), can be represented in a literal IPv6 address and in a
   Uniform Resource Identifier that includes such a literal address.  It
   updates the URI Generic Syntax and Internationalized Resource
   Identifier specifications (RFC 3986, RFC 3987) accordingly, and
   obsoletes RFC 6874.

Working Group Summary

   Nothing of note in the working group itself.

Document Quality

   There are some implementations of the changes proposed in this
   document.

   External reviews were sought and received.  Concerns seemed to focus
   on general concerns with support for IPv6 link-local addresses in
   browsers, but the stated concerns seem to be equally applicable to
   RFC 6874 itself. This document does propose improvements that are
   useful, even if only initially of use to command line utilities. 

Personnel

   Document Shepherd: Jen Linkova 
   Responsible Area Director: Erik Kline

RFC Editor Note