On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Pekka Savola wrote: > I don't think that anyone is assuming 100% automatic prefix generation > like EUI64 IID generation: rather, I assume that in (at least almost) > every case, the prefixes will be configured statically somewhere, along > the lines "identifier/customer: prefix".
Which is what DHCP(v6) is good at, and it may not be overkill if you also want to run a v6 only network and also use DHCPv6 as your DSTM server, for example. > With stateful above I meant protocols which expect one to request a prefix > and return it back, release it, return it back if no longer used, etc. -- > consider router advertisements which aren't stateful in that manner. I think in many situations you'd expect a static prefix, but there may also be situations where any prefix is OK and so a static dhcpv6 mapping is not necessary. This might be useful in the MONET area to get a temporay prefix for a mobile network, so we shouldn't perhaps constrain thinking to fixed CPE? tim -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
