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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com> Thu, 21 February 2013 19:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] New Version Notification for draft-smith-v6ops-larger-ipv6-loopback-prefix-04.txt
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On Feb 20, 2013, at 19:07 , Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> For example, fe80::1/10 might be automatically configured on Mac OS X on the loopback interface, but can you use fe80::2, fe80::3, fe80::4567:1234 and have them all automatically work?

Have you tried it?  [Insert "IT WORKS ON MY MACHINE" LOL-cat graphic here.]

> Special link-local behaviour on the loopback interface isn't specified as far as I know [...]

As far as you know.  Look, if you think what's already there in RFC 4007 and RFC 4291 isn't clear enough, then let's see a draft to clean that up.  I'm prepared to support a reasonable effort to do that.

> and since link-local doesn't have anything to distinguish the link local prefix on loopback from eth0, you also have to specify an interface, so it also fails 2.

Really?  Having to use a zone identifier on the address literal is enough to make it too hard to type and remember?  I get that <http://127.0.0.2/> looks a little less messy than <http://[fe80::2%25lo0]/>, but it's really not *that* much worse, is it?  Outside the URI syntax, it's even easier.

I need a T-shirt that says:

            THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE ::1
  
   (except fe80::1%lo0, which is just like it)


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
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