Hi Brian,

<snip>
>That, in a nutshell, allows a single instance of RIPng to control
>the advertising of site local unicast prefixes.  Though I haven't
>done the work, I would see OSPF as acting in a similar manner.

This does sound like it would work, and that similar changes would work
for other routing protocols.

I don't think that any rocket science is necessary to get site-local
addressing and routing to work.  However, there is additional specification
work required in the routing area to make the routing protocols consistent
with current IPv6 thinking on the use of site-local addresses.

I'm also concerned about the complexity that site-local addressing
adds to an IPv6 host.  Looking at the default address selection rules,
it appears that host implementations will be impacted by site-local
addressing (implementation size and complexity), even in cases 
where it isn't really used.

Margaret


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