Re: 6man w.g. last call for <draft-ietf-6man-default-iids-11.txt>

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 05/22/2016 12:23 AM, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Fernando Gont <[e-mail]
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> 
>     > Excellent! Now, if we can only make this draft stop saying that that you
>     > SHOULD NOT do that...  :-)
> 
>     This draft does not say and never say that. Please stop saying that, or
>     quote the offending text, such that we remove it, and we can make
>     progress.
> 
> 
> Let me restate it again: the draft says "hosts SHOULD use RFC7217 when
> they would otherwise have configured a stable IID". By my reading, that
> is equivalent to saying "hosts SHOULD use RFC7217 all the time", because
> currently hosts MUST configure stable IIDs all the time.
> 
> I already proposed a solution: say that generating a stable IID is OPTIONAL.

This goes beyond what this document was meant to do. BUt if the wg wants
this document to also do that, I'm fine. I guess that if we were to do
that, this document now also needs to update RFC4941, or can we keep it
otherwise "as is"?

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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