> > Btw. what is the scope level of address "::"? = 0? > > Hmm, good question. I personally think "::" can be treated as a > global scope with regards to the scope architecture, > because it does > not cause ambiguity about the "zone". And, in fact, our current > implementation treats "::" as a global address for > convenience, and it > works without anomaly.
I think the loopback address should be link-local scope (on a virtual loopback link). It is obviously not global scope, since it does not uniquely specify an interface. Note that draft-ietf-ipv6-default-addr-select-07.txt section 2.4 also refers to this issue. Rich -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
