I believe that temporary addresses should be available, but they should NOT be enabled by default. Many applications will fail in odd ways if assigned a temporary address. Temporary addresses are best viewed as a tool which may enhance privacy but are not applicable to all situations. The best default for the API is to assign a stable address, and let those apps which can benefit from temporary addresses request them specifically.
I respect the desire for temporary addresses (and AFAIK I was one of the first people to raise concerns about embedding tracable information in an IPv6 address) but I don't think it's a good idea to effectively change the API in a way that would break apps at this late date. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
