Mikael,

>> We also tried (and failed) to come up with a secure mechanism for the 
>> requesting router to advertise it's delegated prefix to first-hop routers.
>> 
>> Less astonished? ;-)
> 
> Well, I guess I shouldn't be astonished. I've even seen vendors implement the 
> DHCPv6-PD server on the router itself, and fail to install route according to 
> the delegated prefix.
> 
> So basically, regarding how to actually implement PD in a network (from an 
> IETF point of view), everybody just gave up, declared the problem unsolvable, 
> and went back to sleep?

It shouldn't be the IETF's job to tell people how to run their networks.
The IETF provides the building blocks.

Cheers,
Ole

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