At 1:43 PM -0400 6/28/00, Jim Bound wrote:
> whether they are crossing boundaries for their scopes. Thus, it is
> possible, though generally inadvisable, to use a Routing Header to
> convey a non-global address across its associated zone boundary.
>
>I believe this is very inadvisable.
Yeah, it's not likely to do anything useful. But I would not want to
impose the cost on implementations of a relatively expensive check (a
scan through all the addresses in a Routing header) for a such an
unlikely event.
>The other option is for customers that really want to use multisited
>servers is to use global addresses, which will not be a scarce resource
>in IPv6.
Yes, that's always a choice.
Steve
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