On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 06:24 AM, EricLKlein wrote:
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.
How high is the cost of setting a standard that says the following 4
prefixes are not broadcast over the Internet? It is one short rule in all of
the systems
no, that doesn't work. one reason why that doesn't work: applications and DNS are not aware of site boundaries, they don't know whether they are broadcasting a SL address over the Internet or not.
There are less expensive ways to provide the same functionality.
Could you name a few that take into account not having an ISP providing addresses.
yes, but wait until I get back from vacation.
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