Hi Ted,

Thanks for your comments.

2013/10/30 Ted Lemon <[email protected]>

> On Oct 29, 2013, at 10:32 AM, Cong Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 0) MAP & lw4o6 are parallel solutions, rather than lw4o6 is a subset of
> MAP. Softwire-dhcp should claim this, and remove "Lightweight 4over6 is a
> strict subset of MAP-E".
>
> I think the correct thing to say here is that lw4over6 is much simpler
> than MAP-E—the client doesn't need to do any math, and just takes the
> configuration from the server.
>
[Cong] I agree.


> > 1) MAP uses DHCPv6 as the provisioning mechanism. DHCPv6 is optional for
> lw4over6, used for stateless provisioning (static mode)
>
> How does the lw4over6 client know it's stateless without a DHCPv6 option
> that tells it?   If you mean that the absence of a DHCPv6 option
> configuring a static IP address/port set is what does it, then that
> solution still requires DHCPv6—it just doesn't require that specific option
> to be sent.
>
> The difference here is not that lw4over6 doesn't require DHCPv6, but that
> it additionally requires DHCPv4 for dynamic allocation, if dynamic
> allocation is used.
>
[Cong] Yes, that's what I mean. DHCPv6 is required in both cases, and
DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 is also in DHCPv6, so this document should make a
discussion on it.


>
> I am sure that I am just restating what you already know, but I want to be
> sure that we don't start arguing about a point on which we don't actually
> disagree.
>
[Cong] It seems not have been fully discussed in the mail list, so I just
want to make sure whether there's consensus on these points.

Thanks!

Best Regards,
Cong
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