At 12:29 PM +0900 3/21/02, JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= 
wrote:
>Perhaps we have two choices:
>
>1. treat :: as global
>2. does (explicitly) not define the scope type (level) of ::
>
>Even the choice 2 will make the document clear, and it will not cause
>a problem in a practical point of view.

I think of :: as indicating the absence of an address, in which case
it doesn't have any scope.  For those who feel the need to assign a
scope value to ::, it's probably safest to treat it as link-local
(for example, to ensure that a router receiving a packet with a
source address of :: is not forwarded to another link).

Steve

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