Re: Dealing with fe80:xx:, when xx != ::

[Steve Deering]

At 3:41 PM +0100 3/16/01, Francis Dupont wrote:
>=> don't worry, there is no future use of those bits (in the past
>there were some proposals which were rejected for many strong reasons).
>But please don't apply this advice to site-local addresses.

My advice is the same for link-locals and site-locals: use a full 128-bit
compare to recognize your own addresses.  That will continue to work,
whether or not sites end up using non-zero values in the high-order
part of their site-locals.

Steve

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