Paul,

I appreciate the feedback, and I'll take it under serious
consideration for my MANET/Autoconf draft. But, I'm not
sure anymore that we need to sweat the details of exactly
what is a site within the context of these discussions.

Someone pointed out that ([RFC4193], Section 4) provides
operational guidelines, and I think the same guidelines
would be true for ULA-Cs as they are for ULAs?

Thanks - Fred
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Vixie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 2:24 PM
> To: IETF IPv6 Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Revising Centrally Assigned ULA draft 
> 
> "Templin, Fred L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > so my previous question stands.  what's a "site"?
> > 
> > Paraphrasing from the 'draft-templin-autoconf-dhcp' definition
> > for "Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET)":
> > 
> >    site
> >       a connected network region that comprises routers that
> >       maintain a routing structure among themselves.  A site
> >       may be as large as an Autonomous System (AS) or as small
> >       as an individual router, and may also be a subnetwork of a
> >       larger site.  A router (and its downstream-attached links)
> >       is a "site" unto itself, and a site can therefore also be
> >       considered a "site-of-sites".
> 
> by this, any connected network region comprising routers that 
> maintain routing
> structure among themselves, up to the size of an autonomous 
> system but perhaps
> as small as a single router, is a "site".  nothing is said 
> (here) about what
> else these routers might be attached to, so i assume that there can be
> connectivity to other sites or to the dfz but that it's not 
> required.  i take
> the term "downstream" to mean "toward less connected sites", 
> which would be
> meaningless if all sites were equally well connected (either 
> to each other or
> to the dfz) but that's not a problem.
> 
> this is a fine high level definition of "site", from what i 
> can see, but i
> have a question... what is the difference between a 
> site-of-sites made up of
> autonomous system sized sites, vs. a site-of-sites made up of 
> leaf sites?  if
> a site can be considered a "site of sites", then the 
> automotive exchange
> network or the global internet could be shoehorned into fitting this
> definition.  i don't think that's the intent, and so, where's 
> the fine print?
> 
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