On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tony Hain wrote: [...] > The whole idea that SL should be revoked if a global is available is > bogus. It is certainly reasonable for the manufacturer of light switches > to only support SL/LL rather than potentially multiple global prefixes. > There is no reason for those devices to interact across a scope > boundary, so the peer nodes that may also need global access MUST keep > their SL to interact in the limited scope.
This seems to be just primarily solving the "security and simple out-of-the-box configuration through site-locals" problem.. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
