I guess I am suggesting that the WG pursue its work in such a way that we do not create a vacuum; I feel strongly that the set of IPv6 standards documents should clearly define the address space to use for the cases that folks have suggested are currently covered by site-local.
--On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 16:07 +0100 Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The three options are really the same. We already have alternatives to site-local addresses: 6to4 addresses based on PI or RFC1918 IPv4 addresses. We didn't have these alternatives a few years ago. These aren't perfect, which is why we must develop draft-hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr, but they're enough that fec0::/10 seems rather unnecessary in any current IPv6 deployment. They particularly handle the requirements of those organisations that want site-locals because that's what they had with IPv4 and they want the same again.
So I support option A, deprecate site-locals independent of further development of alternatives. We have sufficiently good stopgap solutions.
I'm expecting, by the way, that the deprecation will leave fec0::/10 to be treated as global-scope unicast addresses, rather than making fec0::/10 addresses cease to function altogether.
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