On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jim Knoble wrote:
> Okay ... i have a solution:
>
> (1) Use parentheses '(' and ')' to delimit the port number from a
> host address or name. The has the following advantages over any
> other proposed solution thus far:
Yes, that's not a bad idea at all. Even [1.2.3.4(2345)] doesn't look too
bad. The only disadvantage I see is that you'd have to quote them in
shell commands such as
exim -bh '1.2.3.4(2345)'
but people are used to shell quoting, and you don't run those commands
all that often.
> (3) Recruit someone to write a standards-track RFC explaining why
> everyone should this syntax for referring to
> IP-address+port-number pairs.
Nice idea. Who on this list knows about writing RFCs? It's your idea -
are you volunteering? (He said, hopefully.)
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