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Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi> Wed, 02 April 2003 06:53 UTC

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From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
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On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Bill Manning wrote:
> 	Are the apps for which IPv6 is enabled that -can not-
> 	use address literals?

There are a few.

Mostly cauzed by lazy porting, and optimizing at the first stage for the 
masses only (ie., changing the API to use getaddrinfo, but if there are 
some internal address-manually-typed-is-ok checks, those may or may not 
be modified).

> If so, then Steve is wrong and 
> 	the DNS has become critical infrastructure to the working
> 	of the Internet.  Otherwise, we should trapese down the
> 	path of separation of topology locator from stack identifier.
> 
> 	and then revisit the DNS to see if its best used as a lookup
> 	service between these two things... :)



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