>This is important if the site is trying to use site-local addresses for all
>intra-site communication. If getaddrinfo returns the global address first,
>intra-site communication will end up using global addresses.
>
>Hence, I think getaddrinfo implementations SHOULD or maybe even MUST return
>the site-local address before the global address - otherwise site-local
>addresses will lose one of their important uses.
I don't agree we can declare this in the spec. How we word it I am not
sure yet. But mobile nodes will use global addresses not site-local if
they are roaming across routing realms. Site-local simply won't work.
regards,
/jim
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