In your previous mail you wrote: I wanted to add a few cents to the discussion, triggered by Francis saying we're going nowhere :-) => my comment was about the addressing architecture, for the prefix delegation we have a promise of a requirement document.
- router renumbering hasn't been made to work yet, so I doubt that's a good option => this was rejected at the interim meeting too. - 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). => PPP is too restricted. We are still trying to use other things than PPP for standard network access control, so IMHO it is a bad idea to rely again on PPP. - dhcpv6 will work ok, I think, but is a bit complex for being usable in every scenario => full statefull DHCPv6 (to reuse your term) is far too heavy. The stateless new DHCPv6 is not yet specified, so I reverse my assessment to the moment the specs will be available. - APD w/ ICMPv6 is ok but can be simplified (e.g. removing prefix return message) => APD is a good solution inside an organization but is a bit heavy for the poor guy at home. - RA (Lutchansky) is a nice hack, kinda works with hacking. => this is not a secret I am in favor of RA extension for the simple case. It was with APD the favourite solutions at the interim meeting but RA lacked a document (now this is fixed, thanks to Nathan Lutchansky). I believe with some work we can get something nice and very easy to implement (the last point is critical: we are already very late). 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. => I agree about DHCP: as the dynamic address allocation doesn't make sens for IPv6, DHCPv6 has to be heavily changed (simplified!) before to become a reasonable option. Thanks [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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
