Some people are making statements to the effect that we should continue to permit SLs until we have replacement technologies for the problems SLs were supposed to solve.
With respect, they have it exactly backwards. SLs must be discouraged via every means available. Otherwise people will be tempted to think of them as the solution to various problems, and this will increase deployment of, and dependence on, SLs. That's very similar to the conditions that led to the NAT mess. Only *after* better solutions were widely known for the vast majority of these problems would it be safe to use SLs in marginal cases like isolated networks. Even then, we are far better off just deprecating them - the potential for misuse is just too great. 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
