Mr. Dupont, DHCP originally started with allowing dynamic IP address allocation. A secondary benefit of utility is in network operations, it is impossible to manually assign IP address to 100's of hosts let alone 1,000,000's that IPv6 would allow. This about a large network operator, how are they going to manage their asset of IP address pool - send a person to manually configure each host, that is silly.
Subrata -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Francis Dupont Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:55 AM To: NOISETTE Yoann FTRD/DMI/CAE Cc: 'Yamasaki Toshi'; Lilian Fernandes; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPP and Global Addresses In your previous mail you wrote: "... The creation and management of that pool is beyond the scope of this document, but it can be supposed that minimalistically a Delegating Router will be statically configured with a fixed pool." What I meant is that the pool used by the Delegating router, in which it takes the prefix it delegates to Requesting routers, could be set using the DHCPv6 option for prefix delegation. Actually, only static (I understand "manual") configuration is considered. => this notion of static (DHCP terminology) / manual (common terminology) allocation is more important than one can believe. The difference between BOOTP and DHCP is the introduction of the dynamic (DHCP terminology) allocation. My main concern about DHCPv6 is the dynamic allocation makes sense only for a scarce resource: this is the case for IPv4 addresses but definitively *not* for IPv6 addresses... So DHCPv6 is basically useless (and in the real world not used at all :-). Regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
