Thus spake "Christian Huitema" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The specifics of the site local issue should be debated on the IPv6 WG
> list, not on the global IETF list. Let me however respond to your point
> regarding the quality of the debate, as I was the note taker during that
> session.

Issues most often move to the IETF list when a vocal minority object to a
declaration of consensus by the WG chairs.  If the WG chair would like to
reopen the debate, I'm sure everyone will move back there.

> In short, it was not a hasty discussion, there was an informed debate,
> opinions evolved during the discussion, and a consensus was reached. I
> believe that if you had been in the room you would feel closer to that
> consensus.

I haven't seen anyone argue in favor of site-local addressing for the
purposes of having explicitly scoped addresses, so you are correct in one
sense.  What I am seeing is debate over private address space and NAT, which
many of us had expected site-locals to be useful for -- this email thread
(and the one on routing-discussion) belies any claims of consensus on that.

S

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