On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:45:16 +0200 (CEST) [email protected] wrote: > > The upside of DHCP is that it gives the operator a great deal of control. > > My observation, though, is that operators generally cede that to more > > random processes that run on routers or other equipment. I don't see the > > argument for DHCP in context - more for stateless DHCP, which updates > > parameters on all of the hosts in a subnet. Would this kind of a service be > > interesting/acceptable for operators? > > One comment, not directly related to the 6lowpan-nd draft: There are > countries where service providers are required to know which customer > is using a particular (global) address at a particular time - we need > to be able to supply this information to the police on request. This > is one of the reasons why the control of (stateful) DHCP is useful, > and where "random processes that run on routers or other equipment" > make life harder. >
I don't think this is an issue. RADIUS Accounting can be used (and is) to report dynamically assigned IPv6 addressing information, just as it was with IPv4. The relevant IETF RADIUS attributes are - Framed-Interface-Id Framed-IPv6-Prefix Delegated-IPv6-Prefix -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
