Margaret, > Margaret Wasserman wrote: > You have made a statement that the use of IPv6 > site-local addresses (as opposed to globally > unique addresses) will increase the security > of a private network. And, I still don't > understand the basis for that claim.
Semantics: I would have said "globally routable" instead of "globally unique", as some mechanisms such as including the ASN in the upper bits of a site-local address could make it globally unique and not globally routable. That being said, the reasons the mechanism mentioned above has not convinced is because it was a disguised globally routable address anyway. > Could you please answer the following question > that I posted earlier? I have. Shall I expect a response, or is what Richard and I have posted enough to convince you that there are indeed some security benefits in using site-local address when designing a security perimeter in a private network? 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
