Re: Moving forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing

[Tim Chown <tjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My preference is A, then B, then C.

I also think we should keep the former site-local prefix IANA-reserved.

BTW Patrik - does this mean you're not a fan of the source/destination
address selection mechanism for IPv6?

Tim

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 05:47:20AM +0200, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> From an Application (above TCP) perspective, A, definitely A. Itojun 
> summarizes well the issues. Mandating a host to know topology is just a 
> really bad thing. Really really bad.
> 
>    paf
> 
> 
> On tisdag, aug 5, 2003, at 03:09 Europe/Stockholm, Jun-ichiro itojun 
> Hagino wrote:
> 
> >>I would like to hear from the working group on how we should proceed. 
> >> I
> >>think the choices are:
> >>
> >>A) Deprecate Site-Local addresses independently from having an 
> >>alternative
> >>solution available.  This would mean that the working group should 
> >>treat
> >>the deprecation, and requirements and solution documents outlined 
> >>above
> >>independently from each other.  If there was no consensus on an 
> >>alternative
> >>a replacement would not happen.
> >
> >	my choice is (A).  as we have discussed at SF (and probably prior
> >	meetings) site-local address has a lot of issues with it, for 
> >instance,
> >	- ambiguous address
> >	- can't be used referrals across site zones, and there's no way to
> >	  determine if a site-local address is from out-of-site or not
> >	  (because of ambiguity)
> >	- mandates hosts to know the topology, which we should not 
> >allow/mandate
> >	- site-border router issues, and (lack of) routing protocol
> >	  functionality to handle it
> >	therefore sooner deprecation is better.
> >
> >itojun
> >PS: each of the items are summary of discussions we had before, to my 
> >ears,
> >don't try to comment on each items please.  the point of the email is
> >the very first sentence, and that's all.
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