> > 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.
Yes of course that's an advantage. I can't imagine anyone (from enterprise network administrator to home user) wanting intra-site communication to suddenly be routed outside the site. Rich -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
