> Case study: A site has a disconnected network happily using site-locals.
> These addresses get embedded in all sorts of configuration scripts, etc.
> Then they decide to connect to the Internet and get a global prefix from
> their ISP.
> 
> Today: They just advertise the new global prefix alongside the
> site-local prefix, all their hard-coded addresses continue to work.

and their apps break because they use globals when they should be 
using SLs, or vice versa.

yes, I've actually seen this happen.

Keith
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