of a definition), and then focus
on solving these problems without the having the burden of being
forced to cram the solution into Site-local addresses.
-David Borman, Wind River Systems
PS: I view claiming Site-Locals for access control benefits on par
with security through obscurity
it really depends on how well
we can address the issues caused by having them on networks connected to
the global internet. The less we have solved, the more they should be
restricted.
-David Borman
IETF
be allocated for GRUPI.
-David Borman
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
Direct
, but as others have pointed out, if there are filters everywhere
to block them it might be easier to create a new block for GRUPI
addresses than trying to upgrade the GUPI addresses.
-David Borman
IETF IPng Working Group
bind#1 AF_INET4
bind#2 AF_INET6 w/IPV6_ONLY - succeed
bind#2 AF_INET6 w/IPV6_V4ANDV6 - fail
Thus, you have deterministic behavior. And that's the end goal
for portable applications, isn't it?
-David Borman, [EMAIL PROTECTED
. And with the addition of a "Site ID", you'd give people a
whole lot more rope to build an administrative nightmare of overlapping
sites. Maybe we better first figure out how to use the currently defined
site-local addresses
