Fwd: FYI: Site Local

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

On request from Margeret...

  paf

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>
> Date: tor apr 3, 2003  16:01:55 Europe/Stockholm
> To: Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
> Cc: Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se>, Kurt Erik Lindqvist 
> <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>, Måns   Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
> Subject: Re: FYI: Site Local
>
>
> > I have heard about this rumor. Sigh... Is it 50-50 including the 
> > meeting, or just on the mailing list?
> Just the mailing list...
>
> By my current quick count, we are at 33 YES, 35 NO.  This brings the
> total count to 135 YES, 55 NO...  which is getting a bit too "rough",
> don't you think?
>
> I actually think that there is consensus within the IETF to deprecate
> site-locals, but we don't really have a way to poll the IETF.  So,
> I'd like to make sure that the word gets out to more people about the
> poll currently taking place on the IPv6 list.
>
> Maybe you could  forward the consensus call to some of the IESG members
> who haven't weighed in yet (Alex, Allison, Bill, Harald, Bert, any of 
> the
> new guys...).  I know that the old IESG was adamantly anti-site-local.
>
> We also haven't heard from many IAB members (just Rob Austein, you
> and Itojun, I think).  Do you know if others have opinions?
>
> I would also have expected to hear more from the DNS and security
> communities -- if you know a good place to reach clued members
> of these communities, please do.
>
> It is probably a bit questionable for me to be circulating this
> consensus call off of the IPv6 list, but I don't think that we will
> get a result that is representative of IETF opinion, otherwise.
> When I wasn't a WG chair, even I couldn't stand to actually read the
> IPv6 list...  So, I know that there are many interested folks who
> haven't seen this call.
>
> Margaret