Tim,

>> Michel Py wrote:
>> As I mentioned before, we MUST NOT encourage the use of
>> site-locals for people that don't understand their
>> limitations, and this certainly applies to the SOHO
>> example you used.

> Tim Chown
> So how do I print to my net printer in between connections
> to my ISP when I get a different prefix each time I connect?
>  I want some kind of addresses to use locally equivalent to
> Net10. Not for NAT, but to communicate internally while
> offline.

This is a perfectly valid use of site-locals, my point was that we
should not generalize the use when there are alternative methods. To
some extent, site-locals are too easy. If you _choose_ to use them, OK.
But a router MUST NOT offer site-locals as a default.


>> Let me emphasize again that none of this stuff goes anywhere is there

>> is no default enforcement of non-routability along the lines that Bob

>> Hinden, Christian Huitema and myself have contributed, and I have not

>> heard many comments about that part.

> Indeed.  I'm a little confused that GUPI = site-local, nothing
> really new only we're (in PekkaS's method) just "randomising"
> which site-local is used, so all the bad things of site-locals
> remain

I hear that lots of the issues have something to do with ambiguity. By
making site-locals globally unique (GUPI) we remove ambiguity and take
some of the problems out.

Michel.


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