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

[Andrew Newton <[e-mail]>]

 From the reading of the draft, it would appear that much of the pain 
for applications with SL is caused because the apps violated the contract.
Actually, its a wonder any of these would work in v6 at all given the 
description of the problem (address leaks).

-andy

Michael Mealling wrote:
> 
> Its not that 'we don't want to change because its to much work'. Its
> that the Internet architecture assured us that the hour glass model
> applied, that the network topology would remain abstracted within what
> to us is an opaque address space. One of the number one reasons its so
> easy for new application layer technologies to be deployed is that a
> developer doesn't need to know or care about any layer below TCP (or, in
> rare cases, UDP). If the lower layers want to change that hour glass
> model then we're talking about a serious breach of contract with the
> layers above it and a dangerous blow to the hour glass model.
> 
> -MM
> 
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