> The few self-described apps people I've seen take > a stand have to my recollection been strongly > against dealing with locally scoped addresses .
Let's be clear. Our group (Windows Networking) has received a lot of feedback from developers of applications on the Windows platform. The negative developers' feedback was mostly centered on the difficulty of identifying the scope of an address, specially when a node is connected to several sites (e.g. home network and VPN to the corporate network), or when a node moves from site to site. Since the scope is not indicated in the address itself, applications have to keep track of a "site identifier" of some kind. The bottom line is that ambiguity hurts. The local scope nature also hurts, but not quite as much; it is another case of limited connectivity, which is a common "feature" in many networks. -- Christian Huitema -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
