Hi Samita,

> In the last sentence, did you mean to say that the node should have a 
> configuration knob whether to turn on privacy extension behavior ?
> 
> If so,  would it be clearer to say something like the following ?
> 
> 'It is recommended that the node be configurable to turn on/off
> the privacy extension for stateless address autoconfiguration, when
> it is implemented.' 

It should be something like that, but I think Alain was suggesting that
a node-based policy would not be sufficient.  It should be at least 
application based policy, since different applications will not
work with 3041 addresses.

br,
John
 
> Otherwise, as Alain mentioned, it's up to the application and 
> system-default
> configuration to use temporary or public address for a connection.
> We have discussed about possible socket API solution for 
> source address
> selection on per-socket basis. A draft is in plan for that.
> 
> -Samita
> 
> 

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