John C Klensin wrote:
(iii) The IETF has indicated enough times that domain names, not literal addresses, should be used in both protocols and documents that doing anything else should reasonably require clear and strong justification.
I take issue with that as a general statement. There are plenty of applications where the ability to use literal addresses on an occasional basis is quite useful - e.g. for diagnostic purposes (of various kinds) or in a pinch when DNS is broken or not set up correctly. Furthermore addresses are precise where domain names are not.
To remove the capability to use address literals is to cripple our protocols.
(your other three points seemed fine to me) Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf