If they do that, they will have ignored the health warnings
we will put on the RFC.
Brian
Mika Liljeberg wrote:
>
> Hans,
>
> The "application" is wireless connectivity to network XYZ, where the
> network manager of network XYZ controls the choise of the address space
> used. Multi-access basically stands for simultaneous access to multiple
> different networks, possibly under different administration. I.e., the
> terminal is effectively a host participating in multiple sites at the
> same time. Since we can't control the network managers, we simply have
> to assume that some of them will choose to use limited range addressing.
>
> MikaL
>
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 22:25, Hans Kruse wrote:
> > that application seems to scream for "real", i.e. provider-assigned
> > globally unique addresses -- I don't think this is where limited range
> > ("local") addresses should be used?
> >
> > --On Thursday, August 07, 2003 20:09 +0300 Mika Liljeberg
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been working on implementing IPv6 for multi-access capable cell
> > > phones. The number game gets rather different if you start with the
> > > assumption of maybe 1 billion multi-access terminals deployed world-wide
> > > within the next few years. This quickly leads to the conclusion that
> > > anything not guaranteed to be unique must be treated as ambiguous.
> > > Unless uniqueness can be guaranteed, I don't see a way around the
> > > requirement of having a fully scoped IPv6 implementation in these
> > > terminals. Any host operating system that tries to enable users to take
> > > full advantage of wireless connectivity will be faced with the same
> > > dilemma. Ditto application developers.
>
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