Re: draft-hain-templin-ipv6-localcomm-03.txt

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

> If you are still seeing the document as advocating a particular solution
> alternative, please send specific text change suggestions as that is not
> the document's intention.

Fred,

The question in my mind is not what one would change in the
document but instead what parts one could retain.
The problem is that the document was originally written as an argument
for why local addressing in general, and site-local addressing
in particular, was required.

Doing incremental edits to change the document to have a completely different
perspective isn't likely to be efficient. Better to start over with a blank
slate and import the part of the existing document that make sense with that
new perspective. (Just to make it clear, I think the document includes
many perceived important aspects desirable properties for active sites, but
the history of the documents colors things in ways that makes the document
confusing and not very succinct.)

Another high-order bit which I perhaps didn't make sufficiently explicit in
my note is that the document is completely silent on the desirable
properties of global communication for these active sites.
I think we can assume that the importance of global communication
is greater than zero; those sites which don't need any global communication
aren't part of the Internet even though they use IP technology (and IPv4
is fine for them as long as long as they have only a few hundered million nodes
or so :-)

Thus I think it makes sense to describe the desirable properties for global
communication as well even though different individual sites will place
different relative importance on local and global communication;
in some cases local will be much more important and in other cases
global might be the more important one.

  Erik


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