On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> Could you elaborate a bit more?
> 
> Are there particular problems that would be caused by
> limiting the use of site-local addresses to non-globally-
> connected networks?

I believe often an issue here is that OS/application vendors can just bind 
all the local services to nodes' site-local addresses, and make the 
security someone else's (ie router vendor, because site locals must not go 
out of the site) problem.

Needless to say that sounds pretty much like "NAT protection" today..

Pekka

> At 12:53 PM 10/24/02, Richard Draves wrote:
> >This is craziness. We (I don't mean just MS) have shipping
> >implementations that support site-locals. We have operational
> >deployments using site-locals. We have applications that work just fine
> >with site-locals.
> >
> >Rich
> >
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