On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:32:42PM -0800, Eliot Lear wrote:
> For those of you who are voting "no" on the question of deprecation...
*waves*
> Given that if the mechanism exists we know people will develop NAT
> functionality in order to isolate enterprises from IP address changes,
I would question your assumptions:
a) That the existence of site locals will cause people to use NAT
b) That the deprecation of site locals will prevent people from
using NAT.
> what is the benefit of going forward at all with IP version 6?
A very large, very flexible address space, and a protocol which
allows much greater flexibility than IPv4 for, for example, Mobility.
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