>From: "Durand, Alain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 2006/08/22 Tue PM 10:31:10 CDT
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Syam Madanapalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
IETF IPv6 Mailing List <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: RE: Prefix Delegation using ICMPv6
>
>> Thanks for the quick e-mail. As one of the co-authors, I'd in
>> turn like to reply (and state that ICMPv6 PD is ANOTHER way
>> to do IPv6 PD, NOT a replacement for the existing mechanism).
>> FWIW, please see comments in-line:
>
>This is probably the crux of the issue.
...
>I believe that having multiple IETF standardized ways to achieve the same
>thing is a bad idea.
Hi Alain, I respect your opinion but believe differently. BTW, there is already
at least one such instance of their being "multiple IETF standardized ways to
achieve" IPv6 addressing for nodes. SLAAC (RFC 2462[bis]) and DHCPv6 (RFC
3315), AND DHCPv6 'lite' (RFC 3736).
Tim
Rom 8:28
>
> - Alain.
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