Keith Moore wrote: > 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.
There are significantly more people on this list than you could fit in one of the rooms in SF. The chairs need to raise the question on the list, because this is not a trival issue. From reports I heard the whole SF discussion was based on a bogus assertion that SL == NAT. > > > 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. If they exist then list them. There is currently no other way to provide disconnected sites address space. There is no other way to provide stable internal use addresses for intermittently connected sites. There is no other way to provide consistent consumer-simple route filtering for local use appliances and applications. The cost of allowing niche applications to drive the overall architecture is too high. The mainstream applications will be consumer oriented plug-n-play, so the addressing architecture has to take that into account. Yes that means some apps will have to go out of their way to specify a global scope address, but that is not a high cost, and it is limited to the app developer. See if you can figure out a way for Joe-sixpack to restrict the use of some applications on a machine to local use while others are global use, using only global addresses. For the consumer space, the only reasonable way to make this work is to have the restricted apps use a restricted address space that the ISPs know to filter. Tony > > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
