My vote is also yes for the flag. Although GRASP and ACP is mainly IPv6 based, 
the operator might like to manage IPv4 plane through it. The dual stack/network 
would be existing for a long while.

Sheng

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anima [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Atwood
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 7:18 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Anima] Question to the WG about
> draft-ietf-anima-prefix-management
> 
> My vote is yes.
> 
> There are a lot of IPv4 systems out there, and if we can retrofit into them 
> (even
> if it requires a bit of smoke and mirrors to fake the existence of an IDevID),
> then that would be a big win.
> 
>   Bill
> 
> On 03/05/2017 9:57 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Before we move the prefix management draft forward, I've been
> > enhancing the corresponding demonstration ASA to be more realistic.
> > The new version isn't quite ready for public release yet, but I have
> > made it capable of dynamically assigning prefixes of any reasonable
> > length on demand (the previous version was limited to a few pre-defined
> prefix lengths).
> >
> > Doing this, I realised that it's a very simple enhancement to include
> > IPv4 prefixes (represented as IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses). For fun,
> > you can look at the output from the ASA below, which shows how it can
> > split a /104 prefix into multiple longer prefixes when asked to assign
> > a /120 (known in IPv4 as a /24).
> >
> > So to my question: should we add an "IP version" flag to the
> > PrefixManager objective? It would be easy to do, and would allow one
> > to write an ASA that manages prefixes for both protocols.
> >
> > Regards
> >    Brian
> >
> > [output edited only by deleting noise]
> >
> > _MainThread 3268 GRASP startup function exiting _MainThread 3268
> > ========================== _MainThread 3268 ASA Pfxm2 is starting up.
> > _MainThread 3268 ========================== _MainThread 3268
> Pfxm2 is
> > a demonstration Autonomic Service Agent.
> > _MainThread 3268 It supports the IPv6 Edge Prefix Management
> > _MainThread 3268 objective 'PrefixManager' and its companion
> > _MainThread 3268 'PrefixManager.Params'.
> >
> > Act as master? Y/N:y
> > _MainThread 3268 This ASA will provide an initial prefix pool.
> > _MainThread 3268 Also, it will supply default parameters for other ASAs.
> > Default prefix for pool? Y/N:n
> > Prefix length for pool (3..127):104
> > Manual prefix entry? Y/N:y
> > Enter IPv6 prefix:::ffff:10.0.0.0
> > _MainThread 3268 Prefix pool contents:
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:a00:0 / 104
> >
> >>>> p = get_from_pool(120)
> >>>> ipaddress.IPv6Address(p)
> > IPv6Address('::ffff:aff:ff00')
> >>>> dump_pool()
> > _MainThread 3268 Prefix pool contents:
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:a00:0 / 105
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:a80:0 / 106
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:ac0:0 / 107
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:ae0:0 / 108
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:af0:0 / 109
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:af8:0 / 110
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:afc:0 / 111
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:afe:0 / 112
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:aff:0 / 113
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:aff:8000 / 114 _MainThread 3268
> > ::ffff:aff:c000 / 115 _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:aff:e000 / 116
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:aff:f000 / 117 _MainThread 3268
> > ::ffff:aff:f800 / 118 _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:aff:fc00 / 119
> > _MainThread 3268 ::ffff:aff:fe00 / 120
> >>>>
> >
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