Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|I think that we should stop calling these addresses "site-local",
|as that is prone to confusion. We would create a separate set
|of globally-unique/provider-independent (GUPI? Pronounced
|"guppy" or "goopy", depending on how much you like them? :-))
|addresses for use as local addresses in Internet connected sites.
|
|We could still have site-local addresses (FECO::/10), which can be
|used for disconnected networks (and perhaps other cases -- we
|haven't really decided how widely to use them yet). If we limit
|them to disconnected sites, they could be treated exactly like
|global addresses by all nodes. If we also allow them to be
|used on connected networks (for intermittently attached networks,
|for example), we probably want to change the default address
|selection rules to prefer globals (of both sorts) over SLs.
I trust that it goes without saying that these GUPIs will have to
actually be available *before* this change to the default address
selection rules is made.
Dan Lanciani
ddl@danlan.*com
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