I can't believe I'm reading this. Site locals were a design error. They have no redeeming qualities, and they never did. They should never have been in the PS version of the specification in the first place. It's taken us several years to start to fix this tragic error, and now we're talking about delaying the fix.
This is absolutely unacceptable, and I hereby formally ask the ADs to forbid this WG from doing any further work to prolong them. The talk about an alternative solution is misleading. SITE-LOCALS MUST DIE. NOW. Keith > I would like to hear from the working group on how we should proceed. > I think the choices are: > > A) Deprecate Site-Local addresses independently from having an > alternative solution available. This would mean that the working > group should treat the deprecation, and requirements and solution > documents outlined above independently from each other. If there was > no consensus on an alternative a replacement would not happen. > > B) Deprecate Site-Local addresses at the same time as a alternative > solution is agreed to. This would mean advancing both documents at > the same time and making them include normative references to each > other to insure that they were published at the same time. This would > result in the deprecation only happening if a consensus was reached on > an alternative. > > C) Deprecate Site-Local addresses after an alternative is defined, > standardized, and in operational practice. This would mean not > advancing a deprecation document until there was operational evidence > that the alternative was working and shown to be an improvement over > Site-Local addresses. > > Note: In the above choices "Deprecate Site-Local addresses" means > publishing an RFC that does the formal deprecation. > > Please respond to the list with your preference, or if there is an > alternative approach that is an improvement from the ones I outlined. > I hope that many of you will respond. a -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
