Margaret Wasserman wrote: > ... > The work to keep, and finish, site-locals is much greater > than the work to deprecate them.
Wishful thinking... > > To deprecate them, I think that the addressing architecture > and the default address selection rules would be the only > RFCs (both at PS) that we need to change. What about all the documents that need to be created to address the real requirements of network managers? Deliver on those, then it will be time to talk about a couple of wording changes in current documents. > > To keep them, we need to document and resolve the issues that > they cause, update all of the IPv6 routing protocols to > document how site-boundaries are maintained, and document how > address selection will be performed in several upper layer > protocols (at least SCTP, SIP and FTP). We might also need > to provide guidance to non-IETF applications protocol > developers and/or application developers for how to handle > site-local addresses in non-IETF applications. And, we'd > need to specify split DNS. Almost all of that will need to happen regardless of the prefix used, because the architectural reality of the Internet is that many of the attached networks also have a private use space. Claiming otherwise by simply removing a well-known tag is an irresponsible act. This whole deprecate effort is about making it someone else's problem. The IETF has successfully driven out most of the network managers, and now the remaining developers are trying to dictate how networks get run by removing the tools that people really use. The false sense of accomplishment here will only result in mass chaos as network managers continue to run the networks the way they want, but are forced to use ad-hoc approaches to do so. 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
