Re: [v6ops] RFC7084

[Owen DeLong <[e-mail]>]

My understanding from reading the various documents is that M = IA_NA, O= everything else. Further, if M=1, O doesn’t really matter.

In no case do I believe that M or O provide any indication about IA_PD.

I agree that it makes no sense for an HG (among others) not to do IA_PD.

Owen

On Dec 10, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Dec 10, 2013, at 6:08 AM, Sander Steffann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> As far as I know the M flag is linked only to IA_NA. As far as I can see IA_PD is not linked to the M flag at all.
> 
> There is no agreement on what the M and O bits do.   Some people think M means stateful address management; some think M means IA_NA and O means IA_PD.   RFC 4861 is actually fairly clear, at least to my reading of it, that "M" means IA_NA and IA_PD, and that "O" means stateless DHCPv6, but I've heard people argue vehemently that "M" means _only_ IA_NA, and that "O" means IA_PD, because prefixes aren't addresses.
> 
> So if you believe my reading of RFC 4861, you would set 'M' and expect the HG to get both IA_NA and IA_PD; RFC 7084 makes it clear that _either_ the 'M' or 'O' bit being set triggers the HG to do prefix delegation.
> 
> So if you want to do prefix delegation and not stateful address assignment, set the 'O' bit and _not_ the 'M' bit, even though that contradicts what RFC 4861 says.
> 
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