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On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 08:24 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
Fred, get Patrik to yammer at you for half an hour. He does it far better than I do.
Globally unique addresses you can't get to create very few architectural problems. Site-local gives us all the "fun" of pretzelizing distributed applications that net-10 addresses gives us without having the redeeming grace of saving us from the IPv4 address eater.
Like many other things, it sounds like a good idea until you start working through the details.
Harald
--On 20. mars 2003 13:47 -0800 Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com> wrote:
At 11:30 AM 3/20/2003 -0800, Thomas Narten wrote:not smart. there is a legitimate space for keeping certain devices localthe IPv6 wg just killed site local addressing. overwhelming consensus of room was to "deprecate" them.
within a routing domain. Cisco, for example, as a list of servers with
names like wwwin.cisco.com and wwwin-eng.cisco.com, that are not
reachable from outside. I can do this using standard firewall techniques,
but site-local is a pretty attractive way to say "you simply can't get
there from here".