> Let me try to clarify my position.  All I'm saying is that if an app
> works fine with link-locals, and that's all the user has, why not let
> the user use that app? 

Nothing wrong with that.  Where I draw the line is encouraging use of LL as a
general means of providing ad hoc network service, or claiming that it's a
general-purpose feature rather than a fortuitous accident that happens to work
for some apps.

> Sure, there are an extremely small percentage of apps that do referrals,
> or otherwise won't work with link-locals.  

You're projecting v4 assumptions onto a v6 world, and today's assumptions onto
tomorrow's world.  The internet keeps changing.  Trying to impose the
limitations of today's IPv4 apps onto tomorrow's IPv6 apps is as bad as
insisting that IPv4 have all of the limitaitons of IPv6.
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