Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-site-local-02.txt

2003-12-05 Thread Alain Durand
Those are very good to mention as well. - Alain. Keith Moore wrote: To the implementors: a) don't implement SL if you are designing a new product b) don't rush removing SL support from your current products, this can be done in future releases. to application implementors: a) avoid

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-site-local-02.txt

2003-12-05 Thread Keith Moore
> To the implementors: > a) don't implement SL if you are designing a new product > b) don't rush removing SL support from your current products, this can > be done in future releases. to application implementors: a) avoid using SL addresses in applications that exchange addresses b) don't

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-site-local-02.txt

2003-12-05 Thread Alain Durand
The whole story about deprecating Site Local has led to very complex discussions that a lot of people had difficulties to follow, partly because the issues are complex and partly because of the heat of the debate. As we are coming near to a conclusion to this painful story, I believe we owe impl

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-site-local-02.txt

2003-12-05 Thread Christian Huitema
> > It would actually be much simpler and less confusing to say only > > "The special behavior of this prefix SHOULD no longer be supported" > > and nothing about existing deployments. > > This doesn't work operationally, because people use site-locals today. > And as we've debated endlessly we d

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-site-local-02.txt

2003-12-05 Thread Eliot Lear
Alain Durand wrote: I have a last comment on section 4 deprecation. The document says: "The special behavior of this prefix MUST no longer be supported in new implementations" and later on it says: "Existing implementations and deployments MAY continue to use this prefix." I find those 2 state