> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:58:22 +0200
> From: Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: IBM
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> Subject: Let's abolish scope [Re: Unicast scope field (was: Moving
Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since we have established that site-locals will encourage the use of NATs
> ('cause that's how it's done today)
Certainly a lot of people have tried to advance this proposition, but it
seems dubious to me. Site local addresses will neither encourage nor
di
NO -- Do not deprecate site-local unicast addressing.
Site-locals are useful for disconnected sites, and for nodes on connected
sites which should never have global connectivity.
The cost:
Addresses may be ambiguous in certain cases.
Applications will have to choose between addresses when a int
> From: David Borman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> IPv4 has globally routable GUPI (GRUPI) addresses. That's all it had
> in the early days. The explosion in the size of the routing tables is
> was forced changes such as CIDR and new addresses being allocated from
> ISP blocks. The only reason we sti
Over the past 8 days, I've received 526 postings on this list from 54
individuals, including this many from people posting 10 or more messages:
10 From: Rob Austein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
11 From: Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
13 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
15 From: "Richard Draves" <[EMAIL PROT
I've been using KAME code since August 1999 when I patched FreeBSD 3.4
to support IPv6. I think the community owes a great debt to all the
KAME developers, without whose work we probably wouldn't have as great
an installed BSD IPv6 base as we do.
So I mean no disrespect to the KAME developers wh
So many questions and so few answers. My modest proposal:
http://www.f-iw.org/.
Subject: George for Benevolent Internet Dictator
My platform: "You could do worse."
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page:
Just a quick question from an interested lurker: Are these hums of
acquiescence in response, specifically, to the idea that an originating
node may set the flow label to any value, and that nodes forwarding
packets will leave that value alone? -- George Mitchell
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Thanks to everybody on this list who designed, wrote, and tested
IP version 6 software! Now that the 6bone has recovered from its
spasm of routing misinformation, I'm pleased to announce that the
World Science Fiction Society's web page is now accessible via IPv6
at www6.wsfs.org or www6.worldcon
