Hi Tony, At 02:47 PM 10/28/02, Tony Hain wrote:
I have a basic problem with this thread. We have a few people discussing fundamental changes in close to a vacuum.
Obviously, a few people can't make a fundamental change to IPv6. But, we can propose a change, and discuss it on the WG (which should not resemble a vacuum).
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.
What would a light switch do differently to support site-local as opposed to global? It still needs to get a prefix from a router and combine it with an IID using address autoconf. So, I don't understand what system requirements could be eliminated by refusing to support global prefixes. I've spent much of the last 7+ years working on IPv6 stacks for embedded systems, and they have all supported global addressing. Margaret -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
