On 12/16/16, 8:39 AM, "netmod on behalf of Juergen Schoenwaelder"
<netmod-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of
j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:

>Lada,
>
>when would I use link-layer and when link-local? Perhaps all needed is
>a clarification of the description of link-layer? (Perhaps link-local
>would have been a better name but too late now...)
>
>An RFC 3927 address could also be a 'random' address. In fact, the
>169.254/16 prefix kind of hings at RFC 3927 addresses falling under
>'random'.

Actually, I think Œrandom¹ is a more semantically correct classification
for RFC 3927 addresses than the proposed Œlink-local¹.

Acee


>
>/js
>
>On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:33:04PM +0100, Ladislav Lhotka wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I think that one important enum is missing in the "ip-address-origin"
>>typedef:
>> 
>>   enum link-local {
>>     description
>>       "Indicates a link-local address.";
>>     reference
>>       "RFC 3927: Dynamic Configuration of IPv4 Link-Local Addresses
>>        RFC 4291: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture";
>> 
>> Would an erratum be possible/useful?
>> 
>> Lada
>> 
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