On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 01:49 PM, Tony Hain wrote:
Site-locals was voted down in the WG meeting in SF.
The IETF doesn't vote ... and there is no way a decision gets made in a meeting. It doesn't matter that a few vocal people want to remove a capability because they don't understand it, the rules of the IETF are that decisions are based on mail list discussions.
Tony,
It wasn't a few vocal people. It was an overwhelming majority. There were far more people in favor of deprecating site locals at that meeting, than the set of people in favor of site locals even if you include those on the list those who weren't present at that meeting. It was a clear consensus of the working group. And yes, you can make a decision in a face-to-face meeting if there is such overwhelming support for the decision at the meeting that there simply aren't enough people on the mailing list to affect the consensus.
Site-locals are useful exactly for the case that started this thread,
Site-locals are useful, but the cost is too high. The additional complexity that site locals add to nearly every part of the Internet - in apps, DNS, routing, and elsewhere - simply isn't worth the benefit. There are less expensive ways to provide the same functionality.
Keith
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