ipv6 addressing - non-routable equivalents?

[Antonio Querubin]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Huh? What can be simpler than auto-configuration using the MAC address
> of your NIC? No management required. If you want multiple addresses
> per interface, you have to do something else of course - but whatever
> it is will be more complicated than auto-config.

As I said in another part of this thread - what does this buy you that
DHCP doesn't already?

Configuration may be simple perhaps if you confine analysing the effects
to just IP configuration on the box itself.  You still have to manage your
domain name space and the reverse mapping (ie. why should you be required
to change IP address and update DNS records just because you change the
ethernet card in your system?).  Then there is the inherent inefficiency
of the scheme.