On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Alain Durand wrote:
> You could do the very same thing using DHCPv6-lite. The information is
> there, it is flowing from the router to the node downstream, in a push
> or pull mode. It really is just a question of packet format. Using the
> multicast extension to DHCPv6-lite I suggested few days ago, there isn't
> really any difference between the 2 approaches with regard to pass the
> DNS recursive server address. The advantage of the DHCPv6 approach is
> that you can pass other configuration information, like the address of
> the NTP server.

1) spec complexity
2) implementation complexity (there _may_ not be that huge a difference 
here, but probably some)

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