Mika Liljeberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 12:17, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > > I would prefer it if the use of semi-unique local scope addresses were > > > restricted to non-connected networks. For any connected network you can > > > assume that the network manager is able go to some registry website and > > > grab a guaranteed unique prefix. > > > > Ideally, yes. But that doesn't solve all the real world problems - see > > the Hain/Templin draft. > > Which requirement are you referring to? > > I don't see any requirement for (even slightly) ambiguous addresses, > aside from the case where it is, for whatever reason, not possible to > quickly acquire a guaranteed unique limited range address from a central > registry.
Exactly! In that case, whatever the reason, a pseudo-random value with a tiny probability of collision is a fine alternative. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
