Eliot, That seems to me to be orthogonal. I agree that it would be good to see renumbering support (maybe it's a v6ops item??). But that doesn't destroy the value of Bob's proposal.
Brian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter Distinguished Engineer, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM NEW ADDRESS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PLEASE UPDATE ADDRESS BOOK Eliot Lear wrote: > > Bob, > > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
