Alexey,
>> Everyone has to support sin6_scope_id.
>
>Yes, Sir! Are we in the army now? 8)
You know I did mean it like that. Its a req per the IETF.
A platform does not have to implement anything its a matter of what will
be expected and compliant by the market. I suggest to you that Linux
does not want to be the only platform that does not support scopes.
>Let me to cite the only intelligible argument for sin6_scope_id
>(your one, right?) to show people, who did not listen ipng,
>style of IPng WG discussions, resulting in such decisions:
>
>> The WG wants this done in the socket address.
There were a long list of reasons the WG wants it. It is there because
we have link-local and site-local addresses permitted in IPv6.
/jim
:-)
Alexey
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