template func + typname param: g++ says illegal, is it?

[Yotam Medini <ymedini at iil dot intel dot com>]

Is g++ right saying the following is illegal C++ code? 

iwsl010:3378> cat ftmpln.cc
template <class T>
class C {
 public:
   class I {
    public:
      I() {}
   }; // I
   C() {}
   T  _t;
}; // C

template <class T>
bool f(typename C<T>::I& ci) {
  return true;
} // f

int main(int, char**) {
   C<int>::I   ci;
   bool        bi = f<int>(ci);
   bool        b  = f(ci);
   return !(bi && b);
} // main
iwsl010:3379> g++ -v; g++ -c ftmpln.cc
Reading specs from (...)/gcc-2.95.2/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
ftmpln.cc: In function `int main(int, char **)':
ftmpln.cc:20: no matching function for call to `f (C<int>::I &)'


By the way, HP's aCC complains as well.
-- yotam