NO -- Do not deprecate site-local unicast addressing
... until such time as we have a proposed provider-independent,
administration-free allocation method for 'disconnected'
networks, perhaps GUPIs or similar.
... at which time we can do a consensus call of: "Should we
deprecate SLAs as per RFC X in favour of XXXA's as per draft XXX.
I feel that SLAs provide:
1. A useful address space for non-routable backend
networks, eg: SANs. Because of their 'site local'
status, a site-edge machine can easily tell if an
address is 'in' or 'out' at the Application Layer.
2. A useful, large, free, experimental space.
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Nick 'Sharkey' Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Research Fellow, CTIE Tel: +61 3 9905 3707
Monash University, Australia Fax: +61 3 9905 5358
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