developers who use link-local for customer apps are going to get burned. How many apps only run on a link? not many. if we kill all but global, mulicast, and link-local it will be prevented by programmer ipv6 evolution.
/jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:23 PM > To: R.P. Aditya > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Fwd: IPv6 Scoped Addresses and Routing Protocols > > > > For link-local addresses, as long as the scope is > > well-defined, what are your objections? > > for the most part, they're only a problem if you try to use > them in applications (where zero-configuration appliances > are an important subset of applications) > > part of the problem is that the scope of link-local addresses > is *not* well-defined from an application's point of view, > since applications in general don't know, and shouldn't have > to know, about network topology. > > (scoped addresses in general are a nightmare for apps) > > so LL is fine for RD/ND etc. but the vast majority of apps > should never see them. > > unfortunately the zeroconf WG is trying to make LL addresses > be a general-purpose mechanism for internet appliances to > obtain an address - perhaps without supporting any mechanism > to get a global address, assuming (incorrectly IMHO) that the > hosts that need to access that appliance will be on the same > link anyway. > > the problem is not the fact that LL addresses exist, it's that > there are no well-defined constraints on their use. > > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
