Margaret,

> Besides, it would be possible (although perhaps not
> adviseable) to enforce this restriction.  Nodes could
> immediately deprecate site-local addresses whenever a
> global address is configured.

I think this is a terrible idea. I can envision many situations where a
host would need both a site-local and a global address.


> In fact, I am suggesting that all routers and hosts treat
> site-local unicast addresses exactly like global unicast
> addresses, and that we administratively restrict the use
> of site-local unicast addresses to non-globally-connected
> networks.

I am comfortable with this. It's roughly what we do with RFC1918
addresses today, and it has worked fine for many people. Link-locals are
not routable, but site-locals are within the site, and since hopefully
nobody will invent IPv6 NAT, filtering site-local addresses at the edge
of the site seems the appropriate solution to me.

My $0.02

Michel.


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