Hi Anders, I'm still reading through -15 too, so just wanted to add other comments.
I think part of the problem is you can register any address you want, not necessarily one based on a MAC address. EUI64-based addresses can be globally unique, so you can reliably skip DAD on those. An address generated from a MAC address, if that MAC address is not globally unique, could potentially collide with another address. This is very unlikely, as someone would have to randomly choose an IPv6 address in the same space as your MAC-address-derived space. If you had a closed network where you don't have the 'idiot node' picking addresses randomly in your space, you could skip DAD. But I think if you had such a closed network you wouldn't care enough about sticking to the RFCs anyway. Regards, -Colin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anders Brandt Sent: February 25, 2011 11:10 AM To: [email protected]; 6lowpan Subject: [6lowpan] -nd-15: DAD requirement seems too strict Having read the doc carefully, I have a question: The doc is somewhat scizophrenic whether it accepts that a link layer can guarantee unique short addresses. Assumption #6 in section 1.3 seems to say "OK" Section 3.2 says that if I do not use DHCPv6 (M flag = 1) I MUST use DAD. I would like this softened to "MUST use DAD if the LOWPAN cannot guarantee unique short addresses" Thanks, Anders -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carsten Bormann Sent: 17. februar 2011 16:58 To: 6lowpan Subject: [6lowpan] Working Group Last call for draft-ietf-6lowpan-nd-15 In September/October, we had the first WGLC on 6LoWPAN-ND, which resulted in a number of detailed comments and two resulting fine-tuning iterations of the draft. draft-ietf-6lowpan-nd-15.txt has been out for two months now. I understand it has taken part in several interops with multiple implementations in this period; no issues came up. We now start the Working Group Last Call on: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6lowpan-nd-15 The document is planned to be submitted by this Working Group to the IESG for publication as a Standards-Track Document. This is a two-week Working-Group Last-Call, ending on Thursday, 2011-03-03 at 2359 UTC. Please review the changes to the document carefully once more, and send your comments to the 6lowpan list. Please also do indicate to the list if you are all-OK with the document. Gruesse, Carsten _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
