That may be what you want, but that is not what you have been saying. You are advocating taking away private address space.
What private address space do you think that these people have now that we are advocating "taking away"?
The site-local prefix is defined in the addressing architecture, but nothing about its usage is defined there. There are three documents published that define different possibilities for the usage of site-local addressing, The most complete proposal is the "full" proposal defined in the scoped addressing architecture, a WG I-D. It is pretty clear at this point, though (and has been since Yokohama last summer, at least) that we don't have WG consensus to send the current scoped addressing architecture document to the IESG for publication as an RFC. The other two documented proposals for site-local usage are the "moderate" proposal and the "limited" proposal, personal drafts from Bob Hinden and me, respectively. All three of these usage models are consistent with the definition of the site-local prefix that appears in the addressing architecture.
The WG officially rejected the "full" proposal at the Atlanta IETF. At that time, we did not have other proposals documented, but we had discussed the range of possible proposals and had agreed to consider something between the "moderate" and "limited" proposals, so Bob and I documented them. In San Francisco, it became clear that all of the proposals for site-local usage have issues that outweigh their benefits.
So, it is certainly safe to say that we don't have _any_ proposal on the table for the usage of site-local addresses that currently has WG consensus. So, what is it that you think we are "taking away"?
The proposal is to deprecate a prefix in the addressing architecture for which we have found no suitable use.
There are parts of the scoped addressing architecture (multicast scopes and link-local) on which we do seem to have WG consensus. And, I do hope that those parts will be finalized and progressed ASAP.
Margaret
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