Le 2014-04-15 11:15, Ted Lemon a écrit :
> On Apr 15, 2014, at 6:28 AM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Right, to a certain extent that is true, of course; but not in the same
>> drive-by fashion where a single packet can put everyone offline (if the
>> option is not in the regular announcements).
> 
> This is a good point.   Given that this draft depends on IPv6 configuration 
> that comes with lifetimes, it would make sense to specify that the no-ipv4 
> configuration information is only valid for the lifetime of the configuration 
> message that delivered it—e.g., the prefix lifetime for RA, or the lease 
> lifetime for DHCP, or for DHCP information-requests, the information refresh 
> timer interval.   Since we're doing the IPv6 configuration protocol anyway, 
> there's no damage done by continuing to rely on it to suppress IPv4 
> configuration.

Makes total sense. Will be added in the next revision.

(One could even argue that this is implicit with any information
received over DHCPv6 or RA, and that doing otherwise would be going
against design principles of those protocols.)

Thanks,
Simon
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