>  > > What I want to know is why the concept "local" in
>  > > the absense of enforceability (cf strong auth)
>  > > isn't a thoroughly bogus concept.
>  >
>  > for the purpose of security, in any network of significant size,
>  > it certainly is.
>  >
>  > if site-locals are useful at all it is not because of security.
> 
>    Well then, I guess I'm at a loss about why people would
>    want to use site-locals for local services. If it's not
>    for the possibility of access control, then what else
>    is it?

valid use cases appear to be:

- for use in isolated networks (not connected to _any_ other network)

- local addresses that are stable across renumbering 

- addresses for intermittently-connected networks lacking a stable
  global prefix

Keith
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