Backgorounds Network admins have to cope even with link-locals when a routing trouble occurs, global addresses might not be used to fix the trouble. should use a router's link-local to telnet to a bad router EBGP peering using specific ISP's global addresses would be unfair using link-local would be better in a neutral IX link-local addresses should be specified in a router's configuration file We should disambiguate links of such link-local addresses; a router usually connects to multiple links we can't just type "fe80::1"