Know thine address [Re: Ohta-san's draft]

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Greg Maxwell wrote:
> 
> Here is my perspective,
> 
> On 11 Apr 2001, Sean Doran wrote:
> 
> >     How does a host know its address?
> 
> I would purpose the same way it lears it's address normally.

The trouble is that that sux too. In IPv6 it's normal for an
interface to have multiple valid addresses and of course
a host can have multiple interfaces. See
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipngwg-default-addr-select-03.txt
but it ain't over yet.

    Brian