Re: Appel due to management of the "site-local issue"

[Leif Johansson <leifj@it.su.se>]

Bob Hinden wrote:

> Leif,
>
> You didn't address this to me, but I feel obligated to answer.
>
> The questions I have asked the working group in the email "Moving 
> forward on Site-Local and Local Addressing" was to ascertain the 
> manner in which the working group wanted the deprecation of site-local 
> was to happen.  The steps the working group should take.  This has 
> been a topic of debate it and I thought it best to get feedback from 
> the working group.
I appreciate your responding to my appeal and I believe that your 
intentions are what you describe.
However by allowing some of the choices (eg deprecating when 
alternatives are in place) on the table
you run the clear risk of perpetuating the madness that is site-locals. 
This was the reason for my appeal.

In my opinion as stated in the appeal I believe that consensus was 
reached for immediate and unconditional
deprecation of site-local addresses - alternative A in your survey. 
Furthermore I believe that by not acting
on the consensus without delay we allow the minority proponents of 
site-locals to unduly influence the
work in ipv6-wg by exhausting the non-ipv6 wg regulars who were 
specifically asked to review the
site-local issue.

         Cheers Leif