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Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com> Fri, 13 May 2011 18:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD
From: james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
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On May 13, 2011, at 11:34 , Cameron Byrne wrote:
> On May 13, 2011 11:28 AM, "james woodyatt" <jhw@apple.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mobile hosts SHOULD implement DHCPv6 clients.
> > I wouldn't oppose elevating the requirement further still to say that mobile hosts MUST implement DHCPv6 clients.
> 
> Why?  Most mobile v6 nodes do not support it today. [...]

I was thinking about RFC 3775, section 11.5.2, which says:

    As described in Section 4, in order to form a new care-of address, a
    mobile node MAY use either stateless [13] or stateful (e.g., DHCPv6
    [29]) Address Autoconfiguration.


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, core os networking

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