ipv6 addressing - non-routable equivalents?

[Keith Owens]

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:08:19 -1000 (HST), 
Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net> wrote:
>As I said in another part of this thread - what does this buy you that
>DHCP doesn't already?

The ability to plug two or more IPv6 devices into a free standing LAN
and have them work out of the box without setting up DHCP or DNS first.
Think about the small office that has a few PCs and printers and is not
yet connected to the outside world.  IPX handles this case nicely, IPv4
cannot without DHCP or equivalent, IPv6 uses link local addresses which
are autoconfigured using MAC.  Smart houses anyone?