Keith, I haven't done an analysis, but it seems to me that deprecating site local is a significant simplification of the scoping problem, and thereby greatly increases the number of cases where the default algorithm will work.
Brian Keith Moore wrote: > > > Multiple addresses per host are a real-world feature of IPv4 and have > > always been a design goal of IPv6. > > > > We've already defined the default address selection algorithm (RFC > > 3484). > > Applications are welcome to use a different algorithm, but they > > don't need to, which is why the default was defined. > > it's one thing to allow multiple addresses per host in the > architecture, quite another to expect hosts and apps to be able to > tolerate different addresses with different scopes and force them to > choose between these addresses in order to interoperate. > > the default address selection algorithm will only work in a fairly > narrow set of cases. > it's simply not the case that applications "don't need to" use a > different algorithm. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
