<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Mark,<br></div>How to  scale beyond the local segment? Will you need to rewrite the application when you hit the upper limit and the developers are long gone? Sounds like a world of pain.<br><br></div>Kind regards<br><br></div>Paul Wilkins<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 October 2015 at 21:54, Mark Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">markzzzsmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
People on this list who do any sort of IPv6 network programming (which<br>
in theory will eventually be all of us) might be interested in this<br>
Internet Draft. Even if you aren't interested in the programming<br>
related parts of it, the section on the attributes of the Link-Local<br>
Prefix and Addresses is probably useful to know, as always present<br>
Link-Locals are one of the more significant differences between IPv4<br>
and IPv6.<br>
<br>
If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to email me off-list.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Mark.<br>
<br>
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Date: 19 October 2015 at 21:04<br>
Subject: New Version Notification for draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00.txt<br>
To: "<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith%2Bietf-dt@gmail.com">markzzzsmith+ietf-dt@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@gmail.com">markzzzsmith@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<br>
A new version of I-D, draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00.txt<br>
has been successfully submitted by Mark Smith and posted to the<br>
IETF repository.<br>
<br>
Name:           draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps<br>
Revision:       00<br>
Title:          How to use IPv6 Link-Local Addresses in Applications<br>
Document date:  2015-10-19<br>
Group:          Individual Submission<br>
Pages:          9<br>
URL:<br>
<a href="https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00.txt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00.txt</a><br>
Status:<br>
<a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps/</a><br>
Htmlized:       <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Abstract:<br>
   IPv6 Link-Local addresses can be used by applications.  Doing so when<br>
   possible will provide robustness and security benefits to the<br>
   application.  This memo describes the properties of Link-Local<br>
   addresses and the benefits and limitations of using them in<br>
   applications.  It then describes how to use them in applications that<br>
   use the Sockets API.<br>
<br>
<br>
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Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission<br>
until the htmlized version and diff are available at <a href="http://tools.ietf.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">tools.ietf.org</a>.<br>
<br>
The IETF Secretariat<br>
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