Re: Fwd: IPv6 Scoped Addresses and Routing Protocols

[Brian Haberman]

Keith Moore wrote:
> 
> > Who delegates the globally-unique site-ids?
> 
> presumably ICANN or their designees.

This introduces a management headache.  The address registries already
are struggling with managing the global address space.  Adding another
registry will not be beneficial.

> 
> > If the site-ids are
> > globally unique, how are they any different from global addresses?
> 
> they have a different prefix so they can easily be distingiushed
> from public addreses.

But with a globally unique site-id, they are globally routable.  What's
the point?  If the site local addresses are used within a private
network, there is no need for a global registry since they won't be
seen in the global Internet.

Brian
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