I am sorry, but while it is a good attempt to come up with a happy medium between SLs and global addresses, I disagree with the approach that draft-hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt takes. I would prefer an approach that makes the stability of the IP address less important rather than attempting to stablize it (a seemingly lost cause).
What this means to me is that first we need to promulgate something along the lines of draft-baker-ipv6-renumber-procedure-00.txt. It needs some expanding to further automate the process. The more we automate the less pain the network manager will feel during a renumbering event.
This changes the problem from one of a scoped address to one of a standard default and reduces any ambiguity that we might have. It leaves open the question of how to find a name server, and how a name server finds you, but the former can be found with SLP, and the latter can then be handled with DDNS.
I'd like to put Fred on the spot (not having asked him) and propose that his draft be adopted as a WG doc.
Eliot
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