On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Vijay Devarapalli wrote:
> > > FWIW, I fully support Thomas Narten on his view that MIPv6 should not be 
> > > making all of these assumptions to e.g. Neighbor Discovery timer values.
> > 
> > s/assumptions/arbitrary changes/
> 
> on the contrary, they have been well thought out and discussed
> on the MIPv6 mailing list. take a look at the changes first.
> 
> for example RFC 2462 says if DAD fails, the node SHOULD disable 
> the interface. MIPv6 says if DAD fails, generate a random 
> interface ID and try again. take a look at the following URL 
> for the discussion.
> 
> http://www.piuha.net/~jarkko/publications/mipv6/issues/issue79.txt
> 
> can you give me one good reason why this change that MIPv6 
> recommends is arbitrary? come on.....

This isn't MIPv6 specific.

One could say this case if only relevant if you use manually configured
care-of addresses (that is, clashes are not so rare that you need to, in
practise, care about them).  Oh you don't assign them manually?  Forget
about it then.

It's a good enhancement, but doen't belong in the MIPv6 spec.

btw. "arbitrary" was a bit strong word; I should have said "substantial".

-- 
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