RE: use of site-locals as an indication of policy?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On 17. november 2002 16:08 -0500 Tony Hain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

There is nothing requiring that you run the network with SL. Just that
if you choose to do so, there will be some devices and applications that
will require less work. Personally if I were building an
auto-configuring device that is most often intended for local-use, I
would have it configure only the SL if one existed in the RA, but if
there was no SL, configure all global prefixes. This would allow you to
run without SL, but allow those that run with it to not worry about
those devices being reached without explicit effort to change the
default.

since I normally print on my office printer through an SSH tunnel running through my VPN to Amsterdam (don't ask me to explain the security guidelines that led me to start doing this, please....), I certainly can see reasons why you would want to allow a printer to be globally accessible...... but I see your point.

Harald

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