On 2011-05-13 01:23, Thomas Narten wrote: ... > I personally would support having DHCP be a SHOULD rather than a > MAY. The justification in my mind is that if you want the network > operator to have the choice of whether they want to use Stateless > addrconf OR DHCP, they only have that choice of devices widely > implement both.
+1 > But that is not a new argument, and isn't any different today than it > was ten years ago. I think it is, and it certainly is if you make that "fifteen years ago" when DHCP(v4) was operationally young and the IPv6 design did not assume the existence of DHCPv6. There will, I'm sure, be many scenarios in the future where SLAAC is just fine; but it's time for DHCPv6 to be a first-class citizen. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
