On 10 Jul 2005, at 23:38, Randy Bush wrote:
it even makes sense. if you're not going to be on the internet, why the heck do you need an internet address?
RFC1918 presents credible reasons for needing an internet address, even without a plan to connect to the Internet, and defines a number of ranges of "site-local" IPv4 addresses which may be used. RFC3879 deprecates "site-local" addresses for IPv6. I'm told that the thinking is that sites should fence off a part of their globally-routable IPv6 assignment for any "enterprise-local" requirements they may have. This leads to a significant difficulty if obtaining an address assignment is precluded by policy. As Jeroen says,
What should they do, use some random number?
2002:0a00/24 anyone? I am AGAINST this policy change until the issue of "site-local" or "enterprise-local" addressing is satisfactorily resolved. /Niall