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Re: A simple question

2003-04-19 16:52:44
On Sun, 20 Apr 2003 05:22:37 +0700, Robert Elz said:
What is the danger here, and why do I, the user, care?   What I know is
that I want me local communications to just keep on working smoothly,
whatever happens to external connectivity and the addresses I get from
there.

Right.  You the user *don't* care.  

Users are almost never network admins.  And the network admins presumably
care (although with the amount of 1918 leakage we see, that's a dubious
assertion as well).

  | Well.. all you need to do to fix this is to make a rule that if a
  | global prefix becomes available, the site-local prefix is no longer
  | appropriate and must be withdrawn.

Can't possibly work.

How is it any different than any *other* prefix becoming not appropriate
and being withdrawn?

There's this big assumption on the part of the pro-site-local crew that
we "need" a stable address.  I posit that this is a crock, and that
what we *need* to do is iron out the rough edges of IPv6 renumbering
so hosts don't care *what* they have, as long as they have *some*
prefix.

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