I strongly disagree with this suggestion. Site-local addresses (and more generally, scoped addresses) are a fundamental part of the IPv6 architecture. They are an important feature of IPv6, one of the great improvements that makes IPv6 better than IPv4. It would be a serious loss to IPv6 if site-local addresses were only allowed to be used on disconnected networks (not to mention a wholly unenforceable edict - I would rather we engineered things to work when people inevitably mixed global and site-local addresses on the same wire). Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Margaret writes: > 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 think we just spent the last 500+ emails on this list proving that point. Why restart that argument? Just leave site-locals alone. > >Alternatively, we could spend the next 5 years > >discussing the unnecessary complexities of using > >site-locals on connected sites. Actually, I think most of the issues have already been resolved. How to use site-locals on connected sites (and on hosts connected to multiple sites), has been fairly well understood for several years now. I'm totally mystified as to where this opposition to site-locals is coming from. I understand that the human mind has a tendency to reject new concepts just because they are different (the classic not-invented-here syndrome), but surely this isn't that hard a concept to wrap one's mind around. Another way of looking at this is that site-local addresses have been part of all the standards-track documents for some time. It would seem to me that if there are people who want to change this at this late date, the onus falls on them to provide strong *technical* (not political) arguments as to why they won't work. Otherwise those of us who went to the trouble to create working implementations in good faith will have a hard time understanding the motives of those who now desire this restriction. --Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
