> there was also a discussion whether DAD should be done only on
> manually configured addresses, and not on MAC address derived and
> random ones. no consensus in the room. Erik Nordmark suggested
> "optimistic DAD", but there was no time to discuss it.

I hope I merely suggested that "optimistic DAD" be explored to better
understand the issues and benefits.

> optimistic DAD looks to me to be a good compromise.

A possible implication of optimistic DAD (i.e. where an address is assigned
to the interface and used before it is known whether it is a duplicate) is
that
 - neighbor caches in order nodes will have the wrong information and need
   to be switched back to the correct, original information once DAD fails.
 - TCP connections might be reset (a packet arrives at the new node, which
   doesn't have the TCP state so it sends a reset; the real "owner" of the
   address has the TCP state)

  Erik

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