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Re: [Autoconf] Call for comments to a new AUTOCONF charter proposal.

"Dearlove, Christopher (UK)" <Chris.Dearlove@baesystems.com> Tue, 29 June 2010 14:07 UTC

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Henning
> Elections are a real complex thing in MANETs, better have redundancy
and "no 
> bottlenecks" by allowing multiple redundant address providers.
 
The extreme case of which is that all nodes are address providers.

Note that I'm not however saying that is the way to go, just that
that's an option.

There is also the IPv4 vs. IPv6 issue. While the IETF would like
everything new to be IPv6, back in the real world IPv4 is currently
still more important.

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