> > There is, however, a potential risk to using > site-local addresses > for long-lived connections. Those connections may > fail when a site > becomes partitioned, even if global connectivity is > still available > between the partitions.
=> FWIW, I think that one can see this as an advantage. An admin might not want these connections to survive when going through the Internet (outside the site). When the site was partitioned, an admin could have forgotten about these connections (?) and using site-local helped made this obvious. As opposed to having (potentially) sensitive data going over the public net. Just another way of thinking about this... Hesham -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
