Subject: Re: Open issues list? [Re: New (-02) version of IPv6 CPE Router draft is available for review]

From: JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉<[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:10:36 -0700

At Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:13:52 +0300,
Rémi Denis-Courmont <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Even more stupid, if getnameinfo() returns a link-local scope, it appends the 
> non-standard "%eth0" at the end. And if you're not careful when you paste the 

A minor correction (or clarification): I don't know what you exactly
meant by "non-standard", but the notation of "%eth0" is valid in terms
of RFC4007.  I tend to agree with you in the meta-level though:
link-local addresses are tricky for many application programmers to
use safely.

> address through a text-protocol, you're unwilling violating the protocol and 
> sending non-sense to your peer.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.