[dhcwg] Re: Last Call: 'A Guide to Implementing Stateless DHCPv6 Service' to Proposed Standard

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:57:10PM -0500, The IESG wrote:
> The IESG has received a request from the Dynamic Host Configuration WG to 
> consider the following document:
> 
> - 'A Guide to Implementing Stateless DHCPv6 Service'
>    <draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-stateless-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard

Wrt recent exchanges on the dhcwg list, are we concerned that there is
no mechanism in stateless DHCPv6 for the DHCPv6 server to inform DHCPv6
clients of renumbering events to DNS or NTP servers (for example) where
the clients are using stateless autocinfiguration (RFC2462) for address
assignment and DHCPv6 (stateless) for options (DNS, NTP, ...).

If the clients use DHCPv6 for address assignment, the DHCPv6 server could
use its IP lease information to unicast the Reconfigure message, but in
a stateless-only DHCPv6 server this client information would presumably
not be available.

The current solution seems to be that clients must poll for changes, which
is not ideal, but which may suffice in some cases.

Tim

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