Statically assigning prefixes may enable testing but is not how homes will
be provisioned in reality.

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Lamparter <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:41 PM
To: John Jason Brzozowski <[email protected]>
Cc: David Lamparter <[email protected]>, Lorenzo Colitti
<[email protected]>, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>,
"[email protected] Group" <[email protected]>, Jari Arkko
<[email protected]>, Mark Townsley <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [homenet] Running code in Orlando

>On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 04:17:06AM +0000, Brzozowski, John wrote:
>> David Lamparter wrote:
>> >On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:40:25PM +0900, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Michael Richardson
>> >> <[email protected]>wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > Would/could another foot of such a network be on the IETF network?
>> >> >
>> >> 
>> >> If the IETF network didn't respond to DHCPv6 PD requests, it
>>wouldn't be
>> >> much use.
>> >
>> >Even without DHCPv6 PD on the remainder of the IETF network, it might
>>be
>> >possible to get a /52../56 and run a DHCPv6 PD ourselves, emulating
>>part
>> >of the provider network.
>> 
>> Why emulate it?  Is the intention here to test the the code on an
>> enterprise or corporate network?
>
>The scope of the plugfest is the interior and border of the homenet.  To
>get the border right, we need the service provider side of that border
>in some form.  If the IETF network runs DHCPv6-PD, that is an usable
>approximation.
>
>My suggestion was for the case that the IETF network won't be running
>DHCPv6-PD.  In that case, the easiest way to make the IETF network
>usable as one uplink for the homenet plugfest is to ask for a /52 to be
>made available for the plugfest in some static way and then provide
>DHCPv6-PD from that, running on some random PC box/laptop somewhere.
>
>Actually - controlling the DHCPv6-PD might be advantageous in order to
>allow tinkering with it to see how the testbed reacts.
>
>
>-David

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