On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Pekka Nikander wrote: > There is just one thing that I want to repeat: > > If you give people something that is globally unique and > stable, that is, something that looks, smells and tastes > as globally unique stable identifiers, they will start to > use them as such, sooner or later. > > We should not underestimate the desirability of such > identifiers in the face of changing prefixes. > > Not all innovation is limited within the IETF.
I agree 100%. We should not try to make globally unique site-locals too attractive, because, well, they're not _meant_ to be attractive. We have globals in IPv6, you know. I'd actually like to use _globals_, not some site-local addresses. (in the random site-id proposal, the uniqueness probability may even be high to prevent this..) -- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
