RE: [dhcwg] dhcpv6-24: movement detection and Confirm message

How about we drop it and permit Renew to to confirm if it wants to?

/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Narten [mailto:narten@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:42 AM
> To: Bernie Volz (EUD)
> Cc: dhcwg@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] dhcpv6-24: movement detection and 
> Confirm message 
> 
> 
> > It is just one of the ways a client could determine whether it
> > moved; it really isn't a requirement to have within the DHCP
> > specification.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > Do note however that since RAs don't have a unique link ID (yet?)
> > and a RA might contain no prefixes (just have the "M" flag set), and
> > in this case Confirm could be useful.
> 
> I think that future work might better handle this.
> 
> One approach might be to leave the Confirm stuff in for now, and if
> better or more general ways of detecting movement are defined, drop
> the config stuff in a revision. On the other hand, once its in the
> spec, servers will have to implement it forever, so taking it out only
> effects clients...
> 
> Thomas
> 
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