Good.
Regarding a possible next step. Are you guys planning to propose a
"correct" behavior of the flags? It may be worth to try.
Regards,
as
On 26/02/2013 17:53, Liubing (Leo) wrote:
> Hi, Arturo and all
>
> That was my mistake. I derived this draft from a template and forgot to
> change it.
> It should be "Informational", thanks for finding this bug.
>
> B.R.
> Bing
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Arturo Servin
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 5:29 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: SLAAC/DHCPv6 addr-conf operational gaps
>>
>> Dear authors,
>>
>> Very interesting document and very valuable to document the current
>> behavior of the A, M and O flags (that have caused some headaches to
>> some including myself when troubleshooting IPv6).
>>
>> I see that has been submitted as "Proposed Standard" but I failed to
>> find what you are proposing.
>>
>> Would it better to be submitted as "Informational" and then look how
>> to
>> indicate the correct behavior of the flags? or just as "Informational"?
>>
>> Regards.
>> as
>>
>>
>> On 26/02/2013 15:14, Liubing (Leo) wrote:
>>> Hi, 6man & v6ops
>>>
>>> We submitted a new draft to discuss the SLAAC/DHCPv6 interaction gaps.
>>>
>>> As we know there are several flags in RA messages regarding with the host
>> configuration behavior, which are A (Autonomous) flag, M (Managed) flag,
>> and O (Otherconfig) flag.
>>> For some reason, the host behavior of interpreting the flags is ambiguous
>> in the standard (mainly RFC4862). I presented a draft discussing M flag
>> behavior in 6man @ietf84, and there were some feedbacks arguing the same
>> issue. This draft analyzed all the three flags, and provided test result of
>> current implementations, it showed the behavior of different mainstream
>> desktop OSes have varied. The ambiguous and variation might cause
>> operational problems, such as renumbering (used to discuss in 6renum WG
>> and been documented in the WG drafts), cold start problem, and
>> management gaps .etc.
>>>
>>> Your review and comments would be appreciated very much.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Bing
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 5:52 PM
>>>> To: Liubing (Leo)
>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>> Subject: New Version Notification for
>>>> draft-liu-bonica-dhcpv6-slaac-problem-01.txt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A new version of I-D, draft-liu-bonica-dhcpv6-slaac-problem-01.txt
>>>> has been successfully submitted by Bing Liu and posted to the
>>>> IETF repository.
>>>>
>>>> Filename: draft-liu-bonica-dhcpv6-slaac-problem
>>>> Revision: 01
>>>> Title: DHCPv6/SLAAC Address Configuration Interaction Problem
>>>> Statement
>>>> Creation date: 2013-02-25
>>>> Group: Individual Submission
>>>> Number of pages: 12
>>>> URL:
>>>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-liu-bonica-dhcpv6-slaac-problem-
>>>> 01.txt
>>>> Status:
>>>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-bonica-dhcpv6-slaac-problem
>>>> Htmlized:
>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-liu-bonica-dhcpv6-slaac-problem-01
>>>> Diff:
>>>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-liu-bonica-dhcpv6-slaac-problem-01
>>>>
>>>> Abstract:
>>>> This document analyzes the host behavior of DHCPv6/SLAAC
>> interaction
>>>> issue. It reviews the standard definition of the host behaviors and
>>>> provides the test results of current mainstream implementations.
>> Some
>>>> potential operational gaps of the interaction are also described.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The IETF Secretariat
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