> What I am trying to get to is: > > - Application designers who want to work in the "end-to-end clean" > Internet and who do not care to support the corner cases should be > able to do so. > > - The default address selection rules should favor solutions based on > global addressing, I think we all agree that if such a solution is > reasonably possible, it should be used. With the defaults above, the > > "path of least resistance" is not to use limited range, which is > good. > > - Finally, if a solution requires local addressing, and application > writers want to support it, there needs to be a standardized way to > do this (which is why local addresses must be defined and > recognizable).
IMHO, the need for local addressing has not been established, and we should not burden either hosts, apps, or networks with it in the absence of strong justification. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
