Ok - that is true - this is a non-issue here at present.
[After some study of the email trails on ULA, I can't see there was resolution of the discussion of how to handle address selection when ULA and truly global addresses are available. This might argue for moving to non-local anyway.]
Regards,
Elwyn
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladislav Yasevich [mailto:vladislav.yasevich@hp.com]
> Sent: 23 August 2004 19:58
> To: JINMEI Tatuya / ????
> Cc: Davies, Elwyn [HAL02:0S00:EXCH]; 'ipv6@ietf.org'
> Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-rfc2462bis-05.txt
>
>
> Jinmei
>
> Upon re-reading the ULA spec, I noticed that ULAs are actually
> of 'global' scope, so original wording is OK. Since 2464bis
> applies to global scope addresses, we are set.
>
> -vlad
>
> JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> >>>>>>On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:50:51 +0900,
> >>>>>>JINMEI Tatuya <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp> said:
> >
> >
> >>>Yes - there are 9 instances in the body and 1 in the
> abstract and non-local
> >>>would be right for all these places I believe.
> >
> >
> >>Hmm, the changes are not small and could make the resulting
> text a bit
> >>vague, but this time I tend to agree on the change.
> >
> >
> > On the second thought, I suspect "non-local" is still
> confusing...even
> > though we are going to define the term as "an address which has a
> > larger scope than link-local," one might wonder if it includes
> > "unique local addresses" (when standardized) in the body of the
> > document.
> >
> > I can think of two alternatives:
> >
> > 1. "non-link-local addresses". This is perhaps verbose, but the
> > meaning will be clearer. But one may still wonder if
> those include
> > the unspecified address, etc.
> > 2. "large-scope addresses". On one hand, this is perhaps more vague
> > than "non-link-local". But on the other, it will clearly exclude
> > the unspecified address.
> >
> > Are either or both alternatives better? Or can we simply use
> > "non-local"? Or are there any other options?
> >
> > JINMEI, Tatuya
> > Communication Platform Lab.
> > Corporate R&D Center,
> Toshiba Corp.
> > jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
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