1175 IPv6 address lowercase only

Created
14 Oct 2013
Status
In Force (green)Closed: the solution is part of the standard. No further comments are taken. Show the workflow
Part
Part 6 (2009-12; Edition 2)
Links
None
Page
143
Clause
Annex A
Paragraph
A.5
Category
Issue may impact interoperability of implementations of Edition 2

Issue

RFC 5952, 4.3. Lowercase specifies that:

The characters "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", and "f" in an IPv6 address
MUST be represented in lowercase.

Proposal

SCL parser and regex to use only lowercase
<xs:pattern value="([0-9a-f]{1,4}:){7}[0-9a-f]{1,4}" id="IPv6"/>

DiscussionCreated
In Force (green) 14 Nov 13
Discussion (red) Accepted to follow RFC 5952 16 Oct 13