Exactly. The entire IPv6 code base would be reduced in size and more importantly the decision constructs and data struct lookups which is a big win.
Lets face it site-locals are very painful for real development currently and in the long run will produce more bugs in all our products (handhelds, servers, routers, clients) and adds another degree of complexity to all our IETF protocols like SCTP. Lets kill them.:--) /jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:53 AM > To: Margaret Wasserman > Cc: Brian Haberman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fwd: IPv6 Scoped Addresses and Routing Protocols > > > >>>>> On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 18:56:11 -0400, > >>>>> Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 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. > > Regarding the default address selection rules, I don't think > site-local adds much stuff. We also need to handle link-local in the > selection rules, which could impact the host implementations enough. > > In fact, in our implementation of the address selection, there is only > few additional code that is specific to site-local. > > If the host implementation is *completely* unconscious of scoped > addresses (which would be the case for some "minimal" implementation), > it will be able to reduce much on the size and complexity. > > JINMEI, Tatuya > Communication Platform Lab. > Corporate R&D Center, > Toshiba Corp. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
