> Margaret Wasserman wrote: > > It is my personal opinion that we should leave site-local > > addresses as-is and strictly limit their use to completely > > disconnected, isolated networks. > > 1) It is not possible for the IETF to restrict their use to completely > isolated networks.
yes, but it is possible for IETF to recommend that their use be so restricted, which is what I assume Margaret was suggesting. all IETF standards are just sets of recommendations. but just like with any other aspect of a standard, if a network or host or app chooses not to follow the recommendation, it's not guaranteed to work well, or at all. > 2) It is not a requirement that a connected network not use them. no, it's just a good idea for connected networks to not use them, and this is also something that IETF could recommend. > The only reasonable argument here is that the IETF may choose to leave > the details of such use undocumented, and not spend time addressing the > DNS issues. we know that use of SLs without restrictions will cause problems. it's not reasonable to pretend otherwise or to fail to disclose those problems. nor would it be consistent with the rfc 2026 requirements for standards. 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
