> I would also ask all those who want to kill SLs turn your support to > Margaret to put the controls on.
Yes, this is the position I support. Even I do not expect to kill SLs in the sense that we would reallocate those addresses for other purposes, forbid using them under all conditions, expect routers to always filter them or hosts to always ignore them, etc. I don't like pulling the rug out from under people who have built designs around them, even if I think their designs are shortsighted and/or naive. I do however think we need to discourage use of SLs except in isolated networks. I also think we need to make it clear that in general applications aren't expected to work in the presence of a mixture of scoped and global addresses. Applications should treat SLs exactly like global addresses. Finally I think we need to discourage the idea that SLs are a security mechanism, because SL filters are at best only marginally better than other kinds of address filters (and I'm being charitable there). Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
