On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 08:16 PM, Tony Hain wrote:
Lloyd Wood wrote:
spaking of which, Noel, where's the obIPv6 whinge on how, now
that they've deprecated site-local addresses, IPv6 has no
redeeming features left?
I don't know who 'they' is, but the WG has not deprecated site-local
addresses. As I understand it a completely confused discussion occurred
in SF which equated SL with NAT, but that does not equate to a WG
consensus to depricate something people are already using.
your understanding is incorrect. the question posed at the meeting was
quite clear. and yes, the plurality of opinions in the room was so
overwhelmingly in favor of deprecating site local (even if it's
something people are already using) that it is inconceivable that this
is not indicative of WG consensus.
site local is broken. it creates far more problems than it solves, and
it cannot be fixed. it's just taken people awhile to realize it.
of course, the SL prefix will not be re-allocated to other purposes,
and nothing stops those who are already using SL from continuing to do
so. but the idea that hosts, apps, routers, DNS, etc. should
special-case site-local addresses is dead. and good riddance.
Keith