> I was suggesting that SL is an indication that a filtering policy has
> been applied to this network.

seems like a *huge* stretch - several of the ideas for using SL have nothing
to do with filtering.  also, SL strikes me as an extremely poor mechanism
for communicating filtering policy.  

in general an application must assume that there is a filtering policy
may be in place regardless of whether or not it sees SL addresses.
after all, filtering that can affect an application can exist anywhere
in the network, and SL could at best provide a crude indication of 
filtering on the local network.

the way you determine whether filtering is imposed is by trying to 
communicate and having that attempt fail due to an ICMP 'communication
prohibited' message.

so no, I don't think this flies at all.

Keith
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