The code I wrote for T64 does the same.
/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markku Savela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Bound, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: DAD vs. DIID
> 
> 
> > From: Robert Elz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > But it seems that there aren't actually any such 
> implementations, everyone
> > I have seen who has reported has said they do DAD on all 
> addresses before
> > configuring them.   The fact that everyone did that was one of the
> > motivations for the change.
> 
> Here I have to raise a hand. I wrote implementation that actually
> followed the allowed optimization: do DAD only on link-local, and then
> freely combine that ID with announced prefixes WITHOUT doing a
> separate DAD for EACH prefix*ID combination.
> 
> This is still fully allowed by current RFC's, and I still believe this
> is GOOD, and should not be changed.
> 
> As a consequence, and observing that others may not have chosen this
> tactics, the code also defends plain ID, that is: if it sees a DAD for
> address which contains one of my ID's, it will reply to the DAD as if
> I had the address. I don't see any catastrophic failures resulting
> from it.
> 
> 
> 

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