On Thursday 31 July 2008 15:42:05 ext Jari Arkko, you wrote: > I forgot to say this in the meeting, but discussion of > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-shirasaki-isp-shared-addr
One thing I am afraid of is, some applications do compute the scope of the address of the host they're running on. One well-known example is automatic 6to4 tunnel setup in some operating systems. By essentially extending the RFC1918 space, these applications will break. The counter argument is of course, that these applications are already terminally broken due to widespread statefull firewalls, as well as public IP space behind NATs (!) today. I totally agree with that counter-argument. Nevertheless, unless/until someone writes a "Using IPv4 address scopes considered harmful" document, I am not very comfortable going forward with draft-shirasaki-isp-shared-addr. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont Maemo Software, Nokia Devices R&D _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
