Hi Brian, ACK. I get it now and agree with your point. thanks
/jim [Honor, Commitment, Integrity] > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Zill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:50 PM > To: Bound, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Proposal for site-local clean-up > > > Hi Jim, > > > > There needs to be a way to get an address when you don't have a > > > provider. This means either scoped addresses as we have > defined them > > > already (and in multi-link locations, this means either > site-local > > > or multi-link subnet routers and link-local), or some sort of > > > provider-independent address (note there are various > types of these > > > as well, depending upon whether we believe they should be > explicitly > > > non-routable, or privately routable between multiple > > > non-connected 'sites'). > > > > I cannot see anyway to route site-locals across multiple > > sites? Your not saying to do this are you? > > No, I'm not. Site-locals should not be routed across sites. > I was addressing the suggestion others have made which was to > use some sort of yet-to-be-defined provider-independent > addresses instead of site-locals in some situations. My > point on that topic is that there are a range of different > properties such addresses could have (one of which is that > they may or may not be routable across sites). I believe at > least some of the arguments people were having were the > result of different unstated assumptions about what the > properties of such addresses would be. > > > Part of the issue for all this mail is not to kill SLs but > > to make sure we understand them and how to use them and how > to manage > > them and what their affect to users will be. > > That would be my preference as well. > > --Brian > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
