My preference is A, then B, then C. I also think we should keep the former site-local prefix IANA-reserved.
BTW Patrik - does this mean you're not a fan of the source/destination address selection mechanism for IPv6? Tim On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:47:20AM +0200, Patrik F�ltstr�m wrote: > From an Application (above TCP) perspective, A, definitely A. Itojun > summarizes well the issues. Mandating a host to know topology is just a > really bad thing. Really really bad. > > paf > > > On tisdag, aug 5, 2003, at 03:09 Europe/Stockholm, Jun-ichiro itojun > Hagino wrote: > > >>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. > > > > my choice is (A). as we have discussed at SF (and probably prior > > meetings) site-local address has a lot of issues with it, for > >instance, > > - ambiguous address > > - can't be used referrals across site zones, and there's no way to > > determine if a site-local address is from out-of-site or not > > (because of ambiguity) > > - mandates hosts to know the topology, which we should not > >allow/mandate > > - site-border router issues, and (lack of) routing protocol > > functionality to handle it > > therefore sooner deprecation is better. > > > >itojun > >PS: each of the items are summary of discussions we had before, to my > >ears, > >don't try to comment on each items please. the point of the email is > >the very first sentence, and that's all. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
