11 Jul
2005
11 Jul
'05
7:47 p.m.
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.
the thinking at the time of killing site-local addresses was that, as they were specified, they had very complex and ill-thought-out routing implications (somewhat typical of the ivtf's ipv6 effort).
What should they do, use some random number? 2002:0a00/24 anyone?
if they are really not connecting, why do we or they care? if they might be connecting, then we have to make some decisions. randy