Ole,

On 2013-11-15, at 22:01, Ole Troan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Simon,
> 
>>> if optional, we have to think through the corner cases:
>>> - how does a CPE know when to initiate DHCPv4 (or PCP)?
>> 
>> I would propose: when OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS is absent.
>> 
>> DHCPv4 or PCP? Whichever one the CPE wants to try, or even both. We don't 
>> need to signal this.
>> 
>>> - can a CPE end up with an IPv4 address provisioned both with 
>>> OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS
>>>   and DHCPv4 (and PCP)?
>> 
>> Proposal: no. When OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS is present, you shall not do 
>> DHCPv4. PCP is still OK, since it doesn't technically assign an address to 
>> the interface, it merely informs the CPE of an existing stateless mapping 
>> (which may be the same as the one provisioned with OPTION_S46_IPV4ADDRESS).
>> 
>>> - what does the CPE do with IPv4 addresses with longer lifetimes than the 
>>> softwire?
>> 
>> Shouldn't happen with my proposal above.
> 
> yes, I think this makes a lot of sense.
> paraphrasing:
> 
> - one of the containers are _always_ used to provision the softwire

[Qi] When you say "provisioning the softwire", do you mean convey the v6 
address of BR/lwAFTR to the clien?

> - the absence of IPv4 address option in the LW46 container triggers DHCPv4

[Qi] There have been a Enable option for DHCPv4oDHCPv6, I think we can leverage 
it.

Best Regards,
Qi

> - we can ignore PCP for now
> 
> if the client requires other configuration information it can do DHCPv4 as it 
> wish.
> 
> the only change required is to make the IPv4 address option in MAP-DHCP 
> optional.
> (assuming there isn't consensus to drop it altogether.)
> 
> cheers,
> Ole
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