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At Thu, 07 Mar 2002 12:26:09 -0500, Ralph Droms wrote: > > I do disagree with the DT conclusion - as do other WG member > who spoke up in SLC - but I'll let the rest of the > WG members make up their own minds about the various protocol > proposals. I agree with Ralph and disagree with the design team conclusion, for several reasons: 1) The portions of DHCP that are required for post-addr-conf (sorry, don't have a better name for this) are pretty minimal, and I'm pretty sure that one can write conforming DHCP clients and servers that only implement that part of the DHCP spec (more precisely, the only thing that such implementations would have to do with the complex part of the spec would be to ignore the messages without crashing). Ralph, please correct me if I'm wrong about this. 2) While I applaud the ingenuity and enthusiasm of all the people who have come up with interesting ways to configure things in the IPv6 universe without using DHCP, I have yet to see any proposals as simple as just using boring old DHCP for most of this stuff. We have a pretty good understanding of how DHCP works and what's required to support it (for some definition of "we" that may or may not include the members of this WG, a subject on which I decline to have a public opinion). Some of the proposals to replace DHCP, on the other hand, are pretty far out on either the research or kludge axes. While I am not in principle opposed to cool new stuff, I don't think it's sound engineering to do new stuff just for the sake of being different. 3) As I stated in my rant at the IESG plenary in Salt Lake, I think that the IPv6 WG has real work to do, and redesigning the entire Internet from the ground up isn't it. DHCP will do this job well enough, 'nuff said, can we please move on now? Since Ralph is much politer about this than I usually manage to be, I will now slink back under my rock. --Rob -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
