Re: Moving backward [Re: Fourth alternative [was Re: Moving forward....]]

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alain Durand wrote:
> 
> Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> >Hinden/Haberman leads to simple, straightforward
> >changes to shipping code and that's all we can afford now.
> >
> If apps could have dealt with those addresses the same way that they
> deal with
> regular global unicast address, this would be true.
> I'm affraid you're overlooking the impact on address selection here.

Yes, certainly the default address selection rules would have to be
adapted. I don't see that as very tricky though. The tricky case is when
the default rules aren't suitable, but that isn't new.

   Brian


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