Hi Nir, I suggest you visit this page, which provides reasonable access to the ipng mailing list achives.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ipng&r=1&w=2 Probably over the last two years, certainly over the last year, if there is a dramatic jump in email traffic eg around 200 one month to 600 or more the next month, it is likely to be a discussion about site-local, GUSL and every other possible variant within the "scoped addressing theme". October / November 2002 was one such occasion. Most of your suggestions are likely to have come up. Regards, Mark. On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 01:11, Nir Arad wrote: > As things stand today, you are right - "Scope" becomes only another factor in the > routing decision of a packet. > > However, if we make it more explicit, and allow communication only among addresses > at the same scope, I don't see it as > such a pain to hosts and apps. Address selection is not to complex (not as simple as > "everyone have a global address", > but far simpler than what we have now). > > Could you be more specific? > > -- Nir Arad > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Keith Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 3:20 PM > Subject: Re: Let's abolish scope [Re: Unicast scope field (was: Moving forward on > Site-Local and Local Addressing)] > > > > binding scope to an address works about as well as binding QoS to an > > address. sure you can do it as a hack, and it's fairly easy for the > > network to implement, but it's a royal pain for hosts and apps. > > > > Keith > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
