RFC 5954: Essential Correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI Comparison in RFC 3261

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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]

Document record

Document ID

RFC5954

Published

August 2010

Authors

V. Gurbani; B. Carpenter; B. Tate

Status

PROPOSED STANDARD

Stream

IETF

Area

rai

Pages

7

Also known as

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Updates:

RFC 3261

• Read the full RFC text →
• Plain text version
• IETF Datatracker history
• DOI: 10.17487/RFC5954
• Reported errata exist →

Topics

• SIP
• session initiation protocol
• Augmented Backus-Naur Form
• Uniform Resource Identifier
• IPv6reference
• IPv6address

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• 2010
• IETF stream
• rai area