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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
