At Sun, 20 Apr 2003 08:47:43 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time), Terry Gray wrote:
Also, I'm wondering how the SL/1918 address-scoping debate plays in
the context of firewalls. Don't firewalls provide an even more
random form of address scoping that apps must cope with? Or not?
To a first approximation, firewalls are an attempt to impose tighter
scoping on applications that (in the opinion of the entity operating
the firewall) cannot be trusted to make their own scope decisions.
Very different trust relationship from a situation in which the
applications themselves chose between multiple address scopes.