RFC 5954

"Essential Correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI Comparison in RFC 3261", August 2010

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5954.txt
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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 3261

Authors:

V. Gurbani, Ed.
B. Carpenter, Ed.
B. Tate, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

sip (rai)

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Abstract

This document corrects the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) production rule associated with generating IPv6 literals in RFC 3261. It also clarifies the rule for Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) comparison when the URIs contain textual representation of IP addresses. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.