IPv6 Near-Unique Site-Local Addresses
draft-francis-ipngwg-unique-site-local-00
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| Author | Paul Francis | ||
| Last updated | 2001-02-28 | ||
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| Consensus boilerplate | Unknown | ||
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| IESG | IESG state | Expired | |
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Abstract
For many or most sites, site-local addresses are used for packets between nodes within the site. The fact that site-local addresses are not globally unique makes their usage and administration more difficult than they would be if there were globally unique (or nearly globally unique). For instance, before two sites can be merged, one of them has to be renumbered. The meaning of site-local addresses becomes ambiguous when they are taken out of the immediate context of the IPv6 layer, for instance when they are conveyed in email or stored in text files.
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