Re: Site local

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

Tony Li wrote:
> 
> |   The idea of globally unique locals came up in IPv6 for a
> |   different reason-
> |   to allow intermittently connected networks to have stable internal
> |   connectivity *and* to establish VPNs or to merge with other similar
> |   networks. Bogus security arguments were not used.
> 
> So the real need is for globally unique identifiers and the locators
> are to be specified in the future?

You could look at it that way. Or you could say that the IPv6
WG considers that PA space already solves the locator problem,
which I guess it does, modulo multihoming.

It's assumed that flat routing is no problem in the VPN or
mergers-and-acquisitions scenarios.

  Brian