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Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

Markus Hanauska <hanauska@equinux.de> Tue, 31 May 2011 11:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD
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From: Markus Hanauska <hanauska@equinux.de>
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On 2011-05-31, at 13:09 , Mohacsi Janos wrote:

>>> What collision? You should use 'u' bit accrdingly:
>>> 1 - if automaticaly assigned
>>> 0 - if manually assigned.
>> 
>> But it is also 0 for SLAAC addresses w/ privacy extension and those are automatically assigned, in example.
> 
> You can argument for change in the RFC 4941 revision.

When I first mentioned this topic here on the list, I got the impression that there will never be a consent for such a change.

Regards,
Markus

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