In your previous mail you wrote:
As I see it, having to select an interface when sending
a multicast packet in IPv4 is just a hack to get around the lack of the zone
concept in IPv4. This the architecturally clean and simple way to do it.
We shouldn't propagate bad hacks forward from v4 into v6.
=> we agree but Jim's concern is still valid, ie. we should keep the old
way for old applications. The zero sin6_scope_id seems to be able to do that.
> The scope/zone spec is not "still missing", though it
> certainly still needs work.
Well, the draft itself might need a little bit of cleanup, but the concepts
contained therein are well understood, exist in multiple implementations,
etc.
=> can you add more details about "exist in multiple implementations"?
Thanks
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