> Margaret Wasserman wrote: > I've spent much of the last 7+ years working on IPv6 > stacks for embedded systems, and they have all > supported global addressing.
The issue is not the capability of the devices to support global addressing, but the desire of the network designer to configure a set of devices that specifically don't have access to the public address space. There are some military applications where devices have no business talking to the outside world. Control devices or sensors on a water distribution system or a power grid are another good example. These devices have no business whatsoever accessing the public internet, and it might be a requirement that the devices themselves have support for public addresses removed. Michel. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
