Templin, Fred L wrote:
Prefix delegation is a feature used by routers, not by hosts.
I don't understand this point as it relates to the question of
whether/not DHCPv6 will be needed, and the more I think about it the
more irrelevant it seems. Prefix delegation is a feature used by
clients of a prefix delegation server - in DHCPv6, they are the DHCP
client and DHCP server. What the client actually *does* with any
delegated prefixes is up to the client and there is no reason to
pre-suppose that it will necessarily behave as a router.
Again, the question is whether there is (or will be) a way of doing
prefix delegation w/o DHCPv6? (If so, would it be any better than
DHCPv6 - or just different?)
I have same question.
There exist proposals for distributing a prefix from a HA to the Mobile
Router. The proposals extend the Mobile IP protocol to distribute the
prefix.
This is the only alternative I know to DHCPv6-PD.
I also have a side question, because it's IPv4. I wonder whether there
exists a DHCPv4-PD (subnet allocation was called?). It was a DHC WG
item until last June IIRC, and I can't seem to find an RFC. But this is
IPv4.
Alex
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