It would save me from doing a legal like brief (precedents in the IETF for my case here) and major work to the IESG too :--)
But it really can work this way and appease all. Except those who would like to see Stateful dead completely and I would argue they should not win this debate because stateful is an equal partner in the IPv6 architecture. I also question anyones motive that believes stateful should be dead too. In addition the Enterprise wireline networks and IT are not going to give up stateful control with servers and NAS in their networks for a long time with IPv6 is my intelligence from my work with users. /jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:58 AM > To: Bound, Jim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: draft-ietf-ipv6-node-requirements-03.txt > > > Hi Jim, > > I agree, I think it is a good compromise. > > > I like Brian's suggestion folks. > > /jim > > > > > "Bound, Jim" wrote: > > > > > > much deleted... > > > ... > > > > My issue is about stateless and stateful being required features > > > > within IPv6 for auto configuration. Both are needed > and both are > > > > required. > > > > > > I hope we all agree on this, using lower case. I think we > > > have a genuine problem here in they way RFC 2119 defines > > > SHOULD - it makes it very strong indeed, maybe a bit too > > > strong for this case, whereas MAY is clearly too weak. Maybe > > > indeed we need to qualify the SHOULD, e.g. > > > > > > Stateful Address Autoconfiguration SHOULD be supported, unless all > > > possible use cases for the specific implementation concerned > > > are clearly satisfied by Stateless Address Autoconfiguration. > > > > > > Brian > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
