In your previous mail you wrote:

   * Iljitsch van Beijnum
   
   > The routing protocols use link locals, so they don't care.
   
   BGP cannot possibly resolve a link-local next-hop, can it?
   
=> the issue was addressed years ago but this carefully wording:

   The link-local address shall be included in the Next Hop field if and
   only if the BGP speaker shares a common subnet with the entity
   identified by the global IPv6 address carried in the Network Address
   of Next Hop field and the peer the route is being advertised to.

Regards

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PS: this happened in the early days of both BGP v4 and IPv6:
the issue was considered to be hairy and particular to IPv6
so we asked for a dedicated document which was published later
as the RFC 2545.
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