Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Markku Savela wrote: > > ... > > Even if IPv6 is enabled, the system administrator WILL not > give global > > addresses to the internal nodes anyways. If site locals are not > > available, they invent something else for the purpose. > > Access control lists in routers were in use for this years > before RFC 1597. Preventing unwanted access has never been a > valid argument for private addresses and never will be.
Let's try to be very crisp with the terms we are using. Private addresses are exactly about preventing unwanted access. I believe your intent was to say they are not an argument for ambiguous addresses. In the case of self controlled filters I would agree that the ambiguity of the address is of limited value. In the case where a third party is also responsible for some of that filtering, there is value in having the world know to also filter. Tony -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
