paul,
I am confused too. I always thought of it as 16bits?????
also for the api that is an "identifier" not the site-id. Like le0 for
interface.
/jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Paul Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday,February 20,2001 11:04 AM
> To: Brian Haberman
> Cc: ipng
> Subject: Re: Wade through the archives (was Re: another renumbering
> question)
>
>
> >
> > The definition of what a site ID would be was intentionally
> undefined.
> > That is, a site ID was supposed to be implementation dependent.
> > However, we found in developing the APIs and the InetAddress TC that
> > we needed something a little more concrete. Now, the site ID is,
> > in essence, a 32-bit integer.
>
> Heh! When I first read this last sentence, I thought "I
> didn't know it was
> that clearly defined", went off to RFC2373 to check it out,
> but once again
> found no concept of site ID. So I looked again at your
> paragraph and saw
> that you are talking about the API. I didn't realize that there was a
> notion of site ID in the API, so my apologies for using that term
> incorrectly. I picked it up from one of Deering's recent
> messages, not
> realizing its specific meaning. (Even having read through some of the
> archives, I didn't catch that the term site id refered to a
> number that
> crosses the API.)
>
> [..... time elapsed as I look at the API documents to check
> up on this ....]
>
> Well, I looket at the latest versions of RFCs 2553 and 2292,
> and I still
> don't see anything about a well-defined 32-bit site id.
>
> RFC2253 says:
>
> "The mapping of sin6_scope_id to an interface or set of
> interfaces is left
> to implementation and future specifications on the subject of site
> identifiers."
>
> and RFC2292, in a section labeled "Open issues" says:
>
> "What about site names and site ids? Need for interfaces to
> map? Requires
> that site-prefixes pass name - does name need to use DNS
> format to handle
> character sets?"
>
>
> So I remain more confused than ever. Could you please tell
> me where I can
> read about 32-bit site IDs, and after I've read up I'll try
> to address your
> comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> PF
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
> IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
> FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
> Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
--------------------------------------------------------------------
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
