[AusNOG] "How to use IPv6 Link-Local Addresses in Applications"

[Paul Wilkins]

Mark,
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.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 19 October 2015 at 21:54, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> People on this list who do any sort of IPv6 network programming (which
> in theory will eventually be all of us) might be interested in this
> Internet Draft. Even if you aren't interested in the programming
> related parts of it, the section on the attributes of the Link-Local
> Prefix and Addresses is probably useful to know, as always present
> Link-Locals are one of the more significant differences between IPv4
> and IPv6.
>
> If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to email me off-list.
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
>
>
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> Name:           draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps
> Revision:       00
> Title:          How to use IPv6 Link-Local Addresses in Applications
> Document date:  2015-10-19
> Group:          Individual Submission
> Pages:          9
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> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-smith-ipv6-link-locals-apps-00.txt
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>
> Abstract:
>    IPv6 Link-Local addresses can be used by applications.  Doing so when
>    possible will provide robustness and security benefits to the
>    application.  This memo describes the properties of Link-Local
>    addresses and the benefits and limitations of using them in
>    applications.  It then describes how to use them in applications that
>    use the Sockets API.
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