Let's please remember that the architechture devised here will primarily be used toWhen did site local addresses die and why? I changed companies and missed several months of discussion.
Currently I am working on NMS related changes based on: * FE8, FE9, FEA, and FEB are Link local addresses * FEC0 is the prefix of a site local address. Site local addresses are the equivalent of a private IPv4 address
As stated by several other comments recently, I see taht there is not a consensus about the fate of Link local addresses.
To many people are used to thinking of using the 10 net as their local (corporate or internal) address space. If we do not take this into account then these people will adopt ::10:X:X:X:X as the local addresses just as before. When this is related to large companies and their internal (not addressable fro the public Internet) hardware they still need some sort of site or organization local addresses.
We can not pass this by just to prevet slowing otherthings down. There are too many documents out there that refer to FEC0 as the site local, so you will not be able to use it for other applications, thus we will have a de facto standard based on old information while the offical standard will have no alternate.
run _applications_. Long experience shows that private addresses in any form are a
bad idea on the Internet. This was discussed at length on the v6 wg meeting last week
and I believe that deprecating sl is the best we can do.
leifj
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