RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

[Margaret Wasserman <[e-mail]>]

At 03:49 PM 3/27/2003 -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
>Margaret Wasserman wrote:
> > No active IPv6 WG participant (whether or not he attends IETF
> > meetings) could credibly claim that he was unaware that this
> > discussion was taking place,
>
>The discussion has been about potential usage limitation, or BCP's
>identifying application issues. The point of deprecation came out of
>nowhere, and only occurred in the room in SF. This has not had valid
>discussion.

There have been people calling for the complete removal of site-local
addressing all along.

And, elimination/deprecation was quite clearly raised as an option in
Atlanta.  At that time, we called for opinions on the following
options:  elimination, "limited", "moderate" or "full" usage, and
each of the four options had some support in that WG meeting.

Margaret