> are we looking for a way to
> support applications that span multiple sites that each use site-local
> addresses?

the reality is that if SLs are widely used in v6 networks, apps will 
be expected to span sites using SLs, just as they are now expected 
to span between the public internet and sites using RFC 1918 addresses, 
and sometimes between multiple sites using RFC 1918 addresses.

today that tends to require either that all nodes on private networks 
maintain an open connection to a point-of-contact in the public 
network, and/or that there be appliation-specific proxies at points
where the various realms meet.  and it often requires a fair amount 
of complexity in the app due to lack of a usable global address space
and the need to do routing through such proxies.

Keith
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