On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 20:58, Zach Wilkinson wrote: > However, I read in some RFC that site local addresses were going to be > deprecated, so I figured link local addresses would be usable similar to > APIPA addresses. If not, that leaves only global addresses which no US > broadband provider will ever hand out. Link-local addresses have very restricted functionality. and they are mainly used for neighbour discovery and router discovery. They allow autoconfiguration and not intended for use by higher level protocols, as I described in my previous e-mail. Also, there have been some discussing about deprecating IPv6 site-local addresses. But you shouldn't worry much about this as you have two solutions: 1) Deploy site-local addresses right now. If they become deprecated, you can still use network prefix renumbering to turn them into global addresses. 2) Deploy a testing global prefix, like 2000::/64 for IPv6. I deployed site-local addresses as the name resolver prefers IPv4 private addresses to IPv6 global-addresses when two dual-stack hosts try to communicate with each other. > How are networks suppose to use IPv6 without being connected to the v6 > Internet? I don't understand the question... You can use IPv6, or IPv4, without being connected to the Internet. Nowadays, there are many tunnel broker services (for example, http://www.freenet6.net/) which allow you to connect to the IPv6 Internet and access sites which support IPv6 natively.
