[sugar] Re: Crossmark draft spec

[Jim Gettys]

Ivan,

The reason that IPv6 literals exist at all in the specs is to enable
people to get to network devices when name services have failed.
In fact, the IETF strongly discourages use of literal addresses as much
as possible.

Therefore it isn't clear to me that you necessarily need to support them
in the wiki.
                              - Jim


On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 03:08 -0500, Ivan Krsti? wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> J.M. Maurer wrote:
> >  - Could styling cover links lists, macro's, etc?
> 
> No link styling for now. Lists can definitely have styling in them.
> Macros are a bit of a special case; I deliberately left this out of
> draft-4 since I need to think it through some more, but the basic idea
> is that Crossmark /never/ processes anything within a macro's
> block-contents. The block is always passed to the macro verbatim. A
> macro will then have (standardized) access to the parser API in a way
> that lets it parse parts or all of its block-contents.
> 
> >  - What are valid characters in "url names" ?
> 
> An URL in Crossmark means any RFC3986-compliant URI where the scheme is
> HTTP(S). I just realized this means we have to allow for IPv6 literals
> which are bracketed; I need to look through and see if this causes any
> problems.
> 
> >  - Must the number of '=' the length of the heading 1 string? (same for
> >    heading 2 obviously)
> 
> No, it should just be defined as a fixed number (say, 3) or more.
> 
> Let me know if you have any other questions, and I'll add the
> clarifications above to draft-5. Cheers,
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
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