On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Brian Haberman wrote: > Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > > >> > >> Current text: > > > > > > Hi Brian, > > > >> > Site-local addresses are designed to be used for addressing > >> inside of > >> > a site without the need for a global prefix. Although a subnet ID > >> > may be up to 54-bits long, it is expected that globally-connected > >> > sites will use the same subnet IDs for site-local and global > >> > prefixes. > >> > >> Proposed new text: > >> > >> Site-local addresses are designed to be used for addressing inside of > >> a site which is not connected to the Internet and therefore does not > >> need a global prefix. They must not be used for a site that is > >> connected > >> to the Internet. Using site-local addresses, a subnet ID may be up to > >> 54-bits long, but it is recommended to use at most 16-bit subnet IDs, > >> for convenience if the site is later connected to the Internet using a > >> global prefix. > > > > > > I would support this change. However, I doubt that we will get > > consensus to make this change before the addressing architecture > > is issued as an RFC. I guess we'll see how things develop in > > Atlanta. > > > >> Alternatively, we could spend the next 5 years discussing the > >> unnecessary complexities of using site-locals on connected sites. > > > > > > This is _exactly_ what I am hoping to avoid. > > > > Let's limit site-locals to the well-understood case, and focus on > > solving the real problems: > > > > - Getting IPv6 finalized and ready for wide-scale deployment > > - Multi-homing > > - Renumbering > > - Security model for shared IPv4/IPv6 networks > > I agree with Brian and Margaret.
Also totally agree. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
