Gary, That is the slippery slope that got RFCs 1597 and 1631 published, and led us to a sea of troubles.
Let's do better this time: just say no. Keep site locals for their intended purpose, i.e. isolated sites. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My biggest concern is that there is the assumption that there will ALWAYS > be more than enough IP numbers in IPv6. Wasn't that the thought when IPv4 > was started? > > Is NAT or a "NAT-like" option the best thing to use? No, but it WILL be > used. Whether it is due to some network engineer that doesn't understand > IPv6, a security bureacrat that "mandates" it in the name of security, or a > greedy ISP that sees a quick money for charging outlandish prices for extra > IPv6 numbers. Or worse yet, we realize that we need more numbers! > > Though it isn't the best option, we can't remove or even prevent people > from using it. We need to give an option of how to use it effectively and > not breaking other things. > > So, with that being said, I recommend that we have a couple of blocks of > varying sizes set aside for site-local. > > Gary > > Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@sunroof.eng.sun.com on 11/12/2002 > 06:23:56 AM > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: IPng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: Address allocation schemes (Re: Naming and site-local) > > Hi Brian, > > >So, why not simply deprecate SL for sites that have at least one > >global prefix? Or am I too simple minded? > > If you are too simple minded, then I am right there with you. > > My making this exact suggestion is what started the 500+ message > mail storm two weeks ago that has received so much attention on > other lists... > > >That would then leave us with a couple of real problems to avoid NAT: > >multihoming, and easy renumbering. > > Yes, exactly. And, it may be easier to determine ways to solve > these problems in a flat address space than it will be to solve the > myriad problems created by the global use of site-locals. > > Also, please note that although it has been suggested as an element > of some solutions, the global use of site-locals doesn't actually > solve either of these problems. > > Margaret > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
