Hello, People seem to be dodging this, so let's take it into another thread.
There seems to be an assumption that provably unique SL addresses would be needed. Can you tell me at least one reason (note: don't say globally routable) where this would be required instead of "nearly enough" unique identifiers (chance of collision about 1/2^38)? Why I prefer "nearly unique"? Some reasons from the top of the head: - 2^38 is big enough to be in practise collision-free - there is no need for _any_ registration infrastructure <=== !!!! - automatical generation is easier, also for e.g. disconnected sites - people don't get funny ideas they could be totally collision-free and thus routable in the internet; or use them as global identifiers - gives people some reason to use _globals_ too, when they're really to be used But then again, my take is that we shouldn't be advocating these unique SL's everywhere anyway, most should just be able to stick to globals. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
