> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Fenner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
[...]
> It's fairly clear how to allow A and F to not advertise site-local
> addresses across the boundary (at least, as long as it coincides with
a
> routing protocol boundary, e.g. OSPF area).  However, if H1 knows that
> H2 is witchin the same site, H1 is allowed to use its site-local
source
> address to send to H2's global address.  However, along the
H1-A-D-F-H2
> path, A would have to drop the packet because it has a site-local
address
> and is trying to cross a site boundary.

Yes, scopes have to be convex.  This is not new in IPv6.
See section 7 of the IPv4 scoped multicast RFC (2365).

-Dave

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