On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek <j...@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote: >> I went looking to see how ahcpd did it, only to discover that it only >> sort of did, in that there is some support for client side delegation >> but no server side support in the code at present. > > That's right. I've been planning to implement it on the server side, > but other things have been coming up.
No worries. >> Am I intuiting the intent correctly? > > Yes, except that there are tricky policy issues you appear to be > ignoring. No, I was simplifying those out for purposes of clarifying the first bit. I glad that I understood the intent in that part of the state machine. I am as of this month, rather painfully aware of how dhcpv6-pd does it, and all the intricacies required. As one of many examples of tricky policy issues, I don't see a way how to do ahcp-pd right without all the servers maintaining some shared global state and/or potentially naking or adding a state like "I can help you but perhaps someone else has better data, get back to me later" - to an initial pd request. Then there's ugh - security. Then the relay problem... ah, I shant go into it further. However I note that thinking about the pd problem with a clean slate such as ahcp, rather than the decades of accumulated crutft that is dhcp, is helping to clarify my thinking, and thank you for that. > > -- Juliusz > -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://www.bufferbloat.net _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
