As one who has been here since the beginning and implemented this protocol I agree with you. I do think Bob Hinden has given us a compromise that is acceptable but alas we are not able to move on here as children it seems to me.
/jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd T. Fries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 12:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: site-local observations from the outside > > > While I do not pretend to be the most versed in all of the > IPv6 related RFC's, I am questioning what the goals of > site-local or a similar replacement would be. > > Either you have link-local addresses, or you have global > routable addresses. > > Any attempt at providing something that is site local > suggests to me that you open the doors wide for something > like NAT, which of course none of us wants. > > There is enough address space in the global table, why can we > not have some sort of free reservation system (the free > tunnel brokers would suggest it is economically feasible) for > sites that want local addresses but do not intend on globally > routing them. > > Should these sites want connectivity to the global internet, > they would then get an allocation from their ISP as necessary. > > I expect I'm missing something, but perhaps not. > -- > Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Free Daemon Consulting, LLC Land: 405-748-4596 > http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com Mobile: 405-203-6124 > "..in support of free software solutions." > > Key fingerprint: 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A > Key: http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt > > (last updated 2003/03/13 07:14:10) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
