Thomas Narten wrote:
Per my comment above, if you don't invoke DHC, you won't get all the
addresses the network is configured to be giving you. Hence, you
SHOULD invoke DHC to get them.
I think making that a SHOULD is premature and too strong, since we
haven't explored what the desirable behaviors are when both M and A bits
are set.
(When M is set and no prefix has A, then using DHCP is a no-brainer.)
I can imagine that a host wants to have the option to have local policy
to handle the case when both M and A bits are set, but there is nothing
in the "SHOULD" that allows for local policy control.
If we want to work out more details in this space, I suspect we need to
start with understanding why some operator would set both M and A bits.
But I think we can defer that discussion until we have more deployment
experience.
Erik
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