Tony Hain wrote: > > Christian Huitema wrote: > > ... > > Bad, bad application developers. We should really punish them! :-) > > Recognizing the smile, punishment was not my point. What many are > missing here is that the perspective of a single address scope does not, > and will not match the reality of the deployed network.
Which means we need to give the middleware community good tools for dealing with scope, and the reality of scope is more like a Venn diagram than concentric circles. And as Tony has been saying, this is a fact of life, and little to do with how we structure the IPv6 addressing architecture. The same is true of 2-faced or rather multi-faced DNS, however much this may offend some people. It's a fact of life that middleware needs to deal with. I think this is largely an issue that has nothing to do with IPv6 at all, in fact. It's an issue of what kind of API is needed to expose scope choices to middleware, even with IPv4. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
