> Are you suggesting that someone should actually write router code to > prevent this (i.e., treat site-locals as anything other than regular > unicast addresses)? > > It would be better to produce a "Use of Non-Globally Reachable Unicast > Addresses" BCP rather than put meaningless restrictions on address use > in the specs.
since when is a restriction 'meaningless' just because it doesn't affect routers? network designers, network maintainers, and application designers all need to realize that use of non-globals is in general a bad idea. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
