Hi, I wanted to add a few cents to the discussion, triggered by Francis saying we're going nowhere :-)
- router renumbering hasn't been made to work yet, so I doubt that's a good option - pppext might be workable for PPP connections, and is a valid mechanism especially if there is no simple alternative (e.g. if the only alternative is full statefull DHCPv6). - dhcpv6 will work ok, I think, but is a bit complex for being usable in every scenario - APD w/ ICMPv6 is ok but can be simplified (e.g. removing prefix return message) - RA (Lutchansky) is a nice hack, kinda works with hacking. So, IMO the real mainstream solutions will either be: - A combination of APD + RA (Lutchansky), closer to APD - DHCPv6 I think we don't end up with just one mechanism due to different requirements. The choice will be partially dependent on the fact whether configuring the router and nodes (DNS, NTP, ...) will be necessary and/or how. These are two different problems though. DNS etc. only make sense *after* obtaining the prefix. Note that IMO, configuring these with "stateless DHCPv6" but obtaining the prefix with e.g. APD makes perfect sense -- there might be reluctance to implement full DHCP, or even the minimal set of "stateful" DHCP. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
