RE: alternatives to site-locals? (Re: CONSENSUS CALL: Deprecating Site-Local Addressing)

["Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeroen Massar wrote:
> ...
> If someone doesn't want/like this they can pick a random 
> number and use that, they still have to renumber when they 
> interconnect to another site or the internet.

Renumbering in an IPv6 context means adding a prefix. Unlike IPv4 it
does not mean removing the existing one. There is no reason for a site
that connects to have to renumber nodes that are not going to use the
external connection. Get out of the IPv4 mindset.

Tony



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