Brian, > Brian E Carpenter wrote: > And the fact is that enterprise network managers are > very happy to have a class of addresses that cannot be > globally routed and are filtered by default as bogons > by all ISPs.
You forget that the very reason RFC1918 addresses are filtered as bogons is precisely because they are ambiguous. > So they just love RFC 1918 addresses for that, and > hate them for their ambiguity (since that creates a > mess when they have to be routed anyway, e.g. on VPNs). > The main point of this draft, as far as I'm concerned, > is to convey this requirement, which isn't met either > by PA prefixes or the old SL prefix. The requirement was met fine by the SL prefix; the only reason they still are ambiguous is because both Bob and I put our drafts to remove ambiguity from SLs on the back burner due to the deprecation situation. Michel. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
