On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 08:16 PM, Tony Hain wrote:
Lloyd Wood wrote:spaking of which, Noel, where's the obIPv6 whinge on how, now that they've deprecated site-local addresses, IPv6 has no redeeming features left?
I don't know who 'they' is, but the WG has not deprecated site-local addresses. As I understand it a completely confused discussion occurred in SF which equated SL with NAT, but that does not equate to a WG consensus to depricate something people are already using.
your understanding is incorrect. the question posed at the meeting was quite clear. and yes, the plurality of opinions in the room was so overwhelmingly in favor of deprecating site local (even if it's something people are already using) that it is inconceivable that this is not indicative of WG consensus.
site local is broken. it creates far more problems than it solves, and it cannot be fixed. it's just taken people awhile to realize it.
of course, the SL prefix will not be re-allocated to other purposes, and nothing stops those who are already using SL from continuing to do so. but the idea that hosts, apps, routers, DNS, etc. should special-case site-local addresses is dead. and good riddance.
Keith