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.