On 7 Nov 2012, at 14:50, "Teco Boot" <[email protected]> wrote:

> This should be in the homenet-arch, I think.
> 
> It sounds so obvious to me, that I described this in a short text in BRDP:
>   A Router should request a prefix for attached subnetworks, with
>   DHCP-PD [RFC3633], where there is at that moment no on-link prefix
>   for a selected Border Router.
> 
> I could make the should a MUST.

Disagree. Hierarchical or flat PD (with relays) don't work for multihomed 
sites, have problems with arbitrary topplogies etc. 

Cheers,
Ole


> 
> Teco
> 
> Op 7 nov. 2012, om 16:46 heeft Ted Lemon het volgende geschreven:
> 
>> I don't have a particular preference for DHCP-PD over OSPF in homenets, but 
>> I just wanted to quickly contradict what's been said by several people at 
>> the mic: that figuring out what prefix to delegate is hard.   It's not hard, 
>> actually―it's dead easy.   The reason folks think it's hard is because 
>> they're solving the wrong problem.
>> 
>> The problem that needs to be solved is how we number each home subnet.   The 
>> answer to this question is, "with a /64."   There is no other answer.   You 
>> never want to number a subnet with a /52.   Therefore, the delegating router 
>> should never delegate anything but a /64.   Problem solved.
>> 
>> I think the disconnect here is that people are thinking the routers to which 
>> prefixes are delegated need to themselves be delegating routers, but this is 
>> incorrect.   What they need to do is _relay_ prefix delegation requests to 
>> the delegating router from which they got their own delegation.
>> 
>> This scales to multi-homing with multiple delegating routers―you just relay 
>> every PD request upstream to all delegating routers.
>> 
>> I'd be happy to write a draft that describes how this works if someone 
>> actually wants it; I get the sense that people are pretty in love with the 
>> OSPF solution and would prefer not to be distracted, and I have no argument 
>> with that if that's the working group consensus.
>> 
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