One of the advocated uses of site local addresses was for disconnected
sites. However, Dino made the point in the meeting that, if a site is
truly disconnected, it can just as well pick any random addresses it
wants. The absence of a "reserved range" (a la RFC 1918) will pressure
the disconnected site to renumber when it actually connects, rather than
go on using private addresses and a NAT.

In fact, most large sites have at least one IPv4 address, and they can
get a unique 2002::/48 prefix out of that address, even if they don't
have an actual IPv6 ISP yet.

-- Christian Huitema


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