In your previous mail you wrote:
| => I believe this is the DHCPv6 option, there is a DHCPv6 subset too
| (no draft?). IMHO the subset is better because it should not give
| the funny current situation where nobody wants to use DHCPv6 for
| its main purpose, address allocation, but for PD, DNS discovery, etc.
DHCP is a "Host Configuration" protocol - it happens that with v4,
the address is the most fundamental piece of required configuration,
so DHCP is seen as an address assignment protocol.
=> for me DHCP is the successor of BOOTP and the difference is
in the way to assign addresses... but I won't argue about this.
But host configuration is what it is called and that is what it is.
=> in our case it is far more than node configuration but
only the name is not so good.
For v6, address config can be done other ways, so it is entirely reasonable
that DHCPv6 will come to be used for almost everything else, but that.
That's OK.
=> it works but I can't qualify the situation of a large part of
a protocol is only a burden for current uses as OK.
Regards
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