Erik Nordmark wrote:
> What I'm missing in all this is where lla would actually make the users
> life any easier. We can come up with lots of cases where lla makes
> things harder (either for the TCP/IP stack, the network applications, or
> the users) but I haven't seen any positive statement yet.
>
> I think it would be more productive to start with "we want to make X
> easier" (could be for different values of X) and then see what is
> needed. Perhaps lla is a critical piece of the solution or perhaps it is
> a distraction; can't tell without starting from the problem we want to
> solve.
Agreed. I was told that LLA is essential to Bonjour. But I am
not sure what the use cases are. Maybe Michael can shed some
light?
> BTW Have these top-down issues been discussed around MDNS/Bonjour? I
> suspect that similar concerns around multihomed hosts appear there, but
> I haven't though that through.
AFAIK, we have not discussed this before.
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