Add to free - easy to obtain for non connected sites.  1918 addresses
are easy to obtain.

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: Christian Huitema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, November 21, 2002 11:38 am
Subject: globally unique site local addresses

> During the WG meeting, we agreed to work on the definition of a 
> globally unqiue site local addressing architecture, so that we can 
> eventually deprecate site local addresses. I am listing here so far 
> a couple of points that were made by different speakers, as an 
> introduction to the debate:
> 
> * we want to remove ambiguity, which is the root cause of many 
> problems occuring when scoped addresses leak.
> 
> * we may or may not want to prevent routing of these addresses 
> between sites. I guess we should certainly prevent routing between 
> non-consenting sites.
> 
> * we definitely want the addresses to be provider independent, so 
> they can survive renumbering or intermittent connectivity.
> 
> * indeed, it would be desirable that the addresses be usable in 
> sites that are not connected.
> 
> * and we would definitely want the addresses to be free.
> 
> One of the main point of contention regarded routing. I guess that 
> the consensus is, "just like site local addresses." We don't want 
> to prevent usage in connected sites, but we expect that in these 
> sites the hosts will also have provider based addresses, and that 
> traffic routed out of the site will use the provider addresses.
> 
> Now, I guess we have to work from there. 
> 
> -- Christian Huitema
> 
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