As long as we are clear that, the "site-local" does not get special treatment in terms of routing and dns, we should care less about if "site-local" is deprecated or still lived. It's perfectly fine and actually somewhat useful if "site-local" plays the same role as in IPv4 addresses defined in rfc1918.
] ] 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 ] ] -------------------------------------------------------------------- ] 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] ] -------------------------------------------------------------------- - Naiming -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
