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Re: WPD-6, WAA-8, and WAA-9 of draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-04

In your letter dated Mon, 5 Apr 2010 15:01:40 -0700 you wrote:
>Dumb question. In an IPv6 world, we don't actually have unnumbered 
>links; we have link-local-addressed links. The link do in fact have 
>addresses, but they are not externally addressable/ddos-able. If you 
>want to manage a router, you use its loop-back address, which is perhaps 
>a ULA and therefore unroutable from neighboring (customer, upstream, or 
>peer) networks.
>
>Is there a problem with the link-local-address model if an ISP would =
>rather use it?
>
>Or did I miss something?

I've never seen a real definition of what 'unnumbered' is supposed to mean
in the context of IPv6, but I think it is assumed to mean a link that does not
have a global prefix.