Re: M & O Bits was: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-01.txt

[Ralph Droms]

Jari,

At 03:14 PM 2/6/2003 +0200, Jari Arkko wrote:

[snip]

Maybe the right thing is to attach a warning or an explanation
about the implications and leave the support as a MAY. For
instance,

  "Nodes that do not implement DHCP may become unable to
   communicate outside the link when their routers advertise
   stateful autoconfiguration and no prefixes suitable
   for stateless autoconfiguration are offered."

Jari

Do you suggest this text in addition to or replacing the following text from my original draft:

An
IPv6 node that does not include an implementation of DHCP will be
unable to obtain any IPv6 addresses aside from link-local addresses
when it is connected to a link over which it receives a router
advertisement with the 'M' flag (Managed address configuration) set
and which contains no prefixes advertised for Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration (see section 4.5.2).

- Ralph

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