If we don't enforce unreachability through ambiguity, we need to provide an alternative that won't crush the routing system.
BTW: I am updating my geo draft based on the comments from the last round, so hopefully it will have fewer places to throw technical rocks at. Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Enforcing unreachability of site local addresses > > > > The only way to enforce unreachability is to make the prefix > > ambiguous, > > which in turn causes the set of problems that make us want to avoid > site-locals. > > maybe we don't need to 'enforce' unreachability as a matter > of protocol. for instance, there's no 'enforcement' of IP > packets being routed to > their destinations. sometimes they're routed elsewhere (as > in interception > proxies) but we've generally done okay without 'enforcement'. > > Keith > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
