Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> > I agree 100% with Micehls' point - assigning unique IDs to sites for use in
> > site-local addresses moves the site-local addresses into a globally
> > routable address space, with the additional feature that those addresses
> > are provider independent.  The result would be an address space that is
> > site-local by (potentially unenforceable) executive fiat rather than by
> > technical design.
> 
> this sounds like a feature to me, because it would allow hosts using
> such addresses to have their traffic routed between sites without NAT.

Not in the real world; these addresses wouldn't be routable because
they won't aggregate.
> 
> private addresses were a bad idea; we should not repeat them in v6.

Indeed. That's not what SL addresses are, fortunately. 

  Brian
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