On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 02:38:41PM +0900, JINMEI Tatuya / [EMAIL PROTECTED]@C#:H wrote:

> 8. Section 3.2 (DHCPv6 Option)
> 
>    DHCPv6 currently provides a mechanism for reconfiguring DHCPv6 
>    clients.  [...]
> 
> In my understanding, DHCPv6 reconfigure can only be used for the
> "stateful" mode of the protocol.  At very least, RFC3736 does not
> require implementing reconfigure message, so implementations that only
> conform to RFC3736 may not support reconfigure mechanism.
> 
> I believe this document should explicitly note this limitation.

I think this is the rationale for Stig's lifetime draft for other
configured options using Stateless DHCPv6...  this was to cater for 
planned renumbering of DNS, NTP or other servers:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-lifetime-00.txt

tim
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