I, of course, meant stateful below, not stateless.  I shouldn't send mail
before the caffeine has kicked in.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 20 March, 2003 18:06
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: some opinion about the requirement level of 
> DHCPv6 (for nodereq)
> 
> 
> Hi Jinmei,
> 
> In the text, I've tried to seperate the requirements for 
> Stateless Address Autoconfig
> from the use of DHCP for other config info.
> 
> My opinion is that Stateless Address Autoconfig support is 
> MAY.  If a node would need
> Stateless Address Autoconfig, then DHCPv6 support is a MUST 
> for Stateless Address 
> Autoconfig.
> 
> If a node needs other config info, then DHCPv6 is a SHOULD, 
> which is independent
> of Stateless Address Autoconfig.
> 
> John
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 19 March, 2003 21:20
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: some opinion about the requirement level of 
> > DHCPv6 (for nodereq)
> > 
> > 
> > (oops, sorry, the message was incomplete)
> > 
> > >>>>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:31:22 +0900, 
> > >>>>> JINMEI Tatuya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > 
> > > As for other configuration (e.g. DHCPv6) by DHCPv6:
> > > I would vote for SHOULD, with one condition that 
> > 
> > ... that the other configuration specification is clearly separated
> > from full support of DHCPv6 (to mitigate the load of 
> implementing the
> > full spec).  draft-droms-dhcpv6-stateless-guide may help to explore
> > this separation.
> > 
> >                                     JINMEI, Tatuya
> >                                     Communication Platform Lab.
> >                                     Corporate R&D Center, 
> > Toshiba Corp.
> >                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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