Re: [Sip] Question regarding conflicting grammar for IPV6 SIP URI andRFC 3986

["Dale Worley" <dworley at nortel.com>]

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:34 +0000, Theo Zourzouvillys wrote:
> Both are going to require change (although we don't need world AND dog
> to agree with a 3261 update), but seems to me that updating 3986 seems
> like a far more appropriate path to take given the number of other
> affected URI schemes as Hadriel pointed out.

As far as I can see, all the schemes that Hadriel pointed out have
exactly the same problem as sip:, they permit "mailbox"-style components
but do not specify how they are to be encoded if the characters in
question are not valid by RFC 3986.

> I have no objection to the removal of '/' and '?' from the user part,
> but the replacing of '[' and ']' seems [quite] urgh.

It's "urgh" only if you've implemented IPv6, I suppose.  Conveniently,
our project hasn't.

Dale