> I think the problem
> is that when we see a site local address in the stack and
> expect to do, say, a TCP connect to it, we don't know where
> that address came from. If it came from home-site DNS then
> we should somehow get to the home site. If it came from visited
> network http link, then we should use it locally. I don't
> think solving the problem by picking the right source address
> is quite enough. This is because we may not have enough
> information to do this selection. On the other hand the problem
> also appears more general than just MIPv6 specific, because
> other types of tunnels have similar problems.

indeed, it's much the same problem regardless of whether you're
triyng to 'connect' via a MIPv6 tunnel, another kind of tunnel,
or some layer 7 protocol that uses IP addresses as endpoint 
identifiers.  in all of these cases the fact that SLs are ambiguous
makes them very difficult to use.

Keith
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