Hi Daniel, St?phane On Friday 20 March 2015 10:44:11 Stephane Lejeune wrote: > Another use case is when I am running in the woods (no ISP infrastructure) > with all my constrained battery powered wearables connected to my smart > watch. Ipv6 SLAAC would be a very handy feature I would not be able to rely > on if my smart watch is only IPv4 enabled ...
Let me just reinforce my support for this idea. IPv6 SLAAC is an incredibly important small detail, since it allows a network of devices to operate without a stateful DHCP server. The main benefits are: - the network can start even if no such device is present on the network - the network survives the DHCP device being removed - the network also survives if the DHCP server is wiped and starts assigning new addresses Even without an IPv6 router doing router announcements, the link-local addresses will still work and this should be enough for home networks for the foreseeable future (multi-network homes are several years away from being a reality). So yes, I think we should strongly encourage the standards people to require IPv6 support, at the very least for the smart home vertical. Adding IPv6 to an office or an industrial site may be difficult if the network elements need to be upgraded. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
