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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-04-01 23:53:17
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Bill Manning wrote:
      Are the apps for which IPv6 is enabled that -can not-
      use address literals?

There are a few.

Mostly cauzed by lazy porting, and optimizing at the first stage for the 
masses only (ie., changing the API to use getaddrinfo, but if there are 
some internal address-manually-typed-is-ok checks, those may or may not 
be modified).

If so, then Steve is wrong and 
      the DNS has become critical infrastructure to the working
      of the Internet.  Otherwise, we should trapese down the
      path of separation of topology locator from stack identifier.

      and then revisit the DNS to see if its best used as a lookup
      service between these two things... :)



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