Re: [dhcwg] RFC3315 DECLINE definition

[Andre Kostur <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:35 AM, Mudric, Dusan (Dusan)
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> - If the key feature of the stateful DHCPv6 is the address assignment, why
> there is no any address validation?

You need to be clear on what you mean by "address validation".  (Oh,
and DHCPv6 is responsible for both address and prefix assignment)

> - Why is the human intervention a part of the protocol? Why the protocol
> requires an administrator not to make mistakes?

Everything is susceptible to human error.  You need to have more
specific use-cases to get anywhere near this question.  Also, the
protocol does not mandate configuration management.  Perhaps your DHCP
server has the capability of comparing its configuration with that on
a router to look for certain potential configuration mismatches.  But
that's a quality of implementation issue, not a protocol issue.

> - Why the client must assign every address offered by the server? Why should
> the client save the advertised leases for every IAADDR in IA’s, if the
> status code is STATUS_Success?

It doesn't have to.  The client can pick and choose, preferably at the
ADVERTISE/REQUEST stage.  The server ADVERTISEs a dozen addresses, the
client decides that it wants only 1 of them and REQUESTs it.   Or a
less well-behaved client could REQUEST them all, but only actually
configure one of them on an interface.

> - Why the client must use the address that does not match any of the router
> prefixes?

The router may not be advertising any prefixes, so the client doesn't
know any different.  (Nor should it)

> - Why the client is not interworking with ND protocol?

Be more specific.  ND covers a lot of ground.

> - Why the client does not return the address it does not use?

Talk to your client vendor.  The client can return addresses by
protocol.  Either by not REQUESTing it in the first place (though this
isn't returning an address, it's just not claiming it), or by
RELEASEing it.

> - Why is DECLINE message associated with only one error code (DAD failed)?

No use-case has been presented that the DHC working group has agreed
upon that a DECLINE for other reasons is the appropriate response.

-- 
Andre Kostur