Re: [v6ops] disconnected homenets (was: #2 Regarding isolated networks)

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Mon, 23 June 2014 23:00 UTC

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>> The use case I like to imagine is a home user streaming a video from
>> their NAS to their TV over their internal network. That should use
>> ULAs so that a failure of their Internet connection/Global addressing
>> has no impact on watching their movie.

this is yet another red herring (which this wg seems to love).  if there
is no external connection, whatever address prefix the LAN is using will
still work.

randy