> > > Globally unique PI addresses are a step in entirely wrong direction. > > I should have said "globally unique PI site-local addresses" but that does > not probably change your statement. > > > I entirely disagree. > > Care to elaborate a bit?
we've been talking about this for weeks. the worst problems with site-locals are their ambiguity; we need global uniqueness to get rid of that ambiguity and also to allow them to be reliably routed between sites. however we may just be using the words in slightly different ways - globally unique vs. probably unique, site-local (FEC0::/10) vs. some site-specific address space TBD, etc. I currently think - we need a new address space for globally-unique PI addresses (GUPIs) - some mechanism for ensuring global uniqueness is probably better than having those addresses be probably unique - we need an understanding that GUPIs are not globally routable unless/until we know how to make that routing scale - but NOT an architectural limitation against it - use of site-locals (FEC0:://10) should be discouraged in general with a possible exception for isolated/test networks -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
