Thanks for this and the other comments. So far I detect broad agreement with what the text is trying to achieve, since all the comments are about how to make it clearer. That being so, I won't respond individually, but I will stack up all these comments ready for the next draft.
Brian Chirayu Patel wrote: > > > I would rather like to see some text like: > > The following section of RFC x,y,z.... are obsoleted: > > > > section a.b.c of RFC XXXX > > ..... > > That would be difficult. Text about Site-locals not localized. Maybe we can > rephrase the last sentence to > > "Henceforth the prefix MUST be treated as an unassigned prefix by new IPv6 > implementations." > > > > The prefix MUST NOT be reassigned for other use > > > except by a future IETF standards action. Future versions of the > > > addressing architecture [RFC3513] will include this information. > > > > > > However, router implementations SHOULD be configured to prevent > > > routing of this prefix by default. > > > > This seems to contradict the initial sentence I have just commented on. > > RFC 3513 states - "Routers must not forward any packets with site-local source > or destination addresses outside of the site." (Note the "must") > > On further thought, we can probably reorganize the section as: > > "This document formally deprecates the IPv6 site-local unicast prefix defined > in [RFC3513], i.e. 1111111011 binary or FEC0::/10. The prefix MUST NOT be > reassigned for other use except by a future IETF standards action. Future > versions of the addressing architecture [RFC3513] will include this > information. > > Henceforth FEC0::/10 prefix MUST be treated as an unassigned prefix by new > IPv6 (for hosts as well as routers) implementations." > > I also think that we need to have a line that says something like: > > "The deprecation of IPv6 site-local unicast addresses is applicable to all the > usages as specified in RFC A, B, C, D... . Future versions of these RFC's will > remove information about site-locals". > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
