> What this bumps into here is the fallacious assumption by some > app developers that the routing space is globally flat, so if by > chance there is more than one address, every available address can be > treated equally.
Well, duh. This is the way the Internet was designed to work. The Internet was specifically designed to not require apps to know about the topology of the network. Now if we can improve service for apps by substituting addresses while still providing the same functionality, and if we can make this reasonably transparent to apps, that's worth considering. But none of the proposals for using scoped addresses manage to do this. Too many people seem to forget that the purpose of the Internet is to support a diverse set of applications. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
