[dhcwg] DHCPv6 Reply Message

[Timothy Carlin <[e-mail]>]

Hi dhcwg,

A question has come up regarding how to handle the situation where a DHCPv6
Client receives a Reply to a Renew Message.

For a Renew transaction, how should a client process a Reply message that
contains a valid IA_NA, but does not contain any IA Address option?  The
Reply message is otherwise valid and complete.

RFC 3315 says this:

   If the Reply was received in response to a Solicit (with a Rapid
>    Commit option), Request, Renew or Rebind message, the client updates
>    the information it has recorded about IAs from the IA options
>    contained in the Reply message:
> ...
>    -  Leave unchanged any information about addresses the client has
>       recorded in the IA but that were not included in the IA from the
>       server.


RFC 8415 updated the word addresses, and instead uses "leases":

   -  Leave unchanged any information about leases the client has
>       recorded in the IA but that were not included in the IA from the
>       server.


Should the client continue the same Renew transaction (same transaction id)
and retransmit as the IA Address Option was not included, or process the
Reply, update T1/T2 and start a new Renew transaction (new transaction id)
at T1?

Thanks,
Tim Carlin
UNH-IOL