1. I think this draft is appropriately being prepared as Proposed Standard. Trying to side-line local addressing to Experimental is not in keeping with the declared consensus on work towards a "replacement for site-locals" (which after all are on the standards track now). Also, this document IMHO can be tweaked in pretty short order to qualify for Proposed Standard status.
2. Several folks stumbled over the wording (in section 1.0) that "applications may treat these address[sic] like global scoped addresses". How about:
"Applications may treat these addresses like global scoped addresses; such applications will function correctly within the reach of the local addresses. Sites using a mixture of Globally Routable and Local addresses may experience sub-optimal application behaviour, see sections 8.0-10.0 for further discussion".
If that sounds better I am willing to volunteer wording/edits to tighten up those sections (regarding applications in mixed environments).
3. Section 9.0 regarding DHCP6; suggest: "In order for hosts to autoconfigure Local IPv6 addresses, routers have to be configured to advertise Local IPv6 /64 prefixes in router advertisements, or DHCP6 must have been configured to assign them."
4. Regarding DNS; there were some comments regarding RFC1918-style lookups. I assume the concern was regarding reverse lookups (the 1918 root server load issue). However, the Local addresses in this draft are unique (FC00::/8) or nearly unique (FD00::/8). As such there is really no reason not to allow reverse lookups for FC00::/8 in the global DNS.
Hans Kruse, Associate Professor J. Warren McClure School of Communication Systems Management Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701 740-593-4891 voice, 740-593-4889 fax
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