Re: Appeal to the IAB on the site-local issue

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <E320A8529CF07E4C967ECC2F380B0CF902335099@bsebe001.americas.nokia.co
m>, Margaret.Wasserman@nokia.com writes:
>
>Hi Scott,
>
>> But, for what it's worth, I do not think that there was sufficient
>> discussion of the option of deprecating SL addresses before 
>> the consensus check was made.  So, in a way, I think the consensus 
>> was wrongly reached, even if I agree that consensus was reached.
>
>If the San Francisco meeting was the only time/place that the IPv6
>WG had discussed the topic of what to do regarding IPv6 site-local 
>addressing, then I might agree with you.

What Margaret said.  This is hardly the first time the issue has come 
up; it's been debated for years.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb