Re: [v6ops] Stateful SLAAC (draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host)

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Sat, 11 November 2017 03:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Stateful SLAAC (draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host)
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:19:11 +0800
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On Nov 11, 2017, at 11:05 AM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> wrote:
> If the SLAAC router needs to keep that state, why do you say that it is
> not SLAAC that is stateful? Whose state is that, then?

SLAAC is stateless.   The host can freely change its SLAAC address at any time.   However, when it does so, it will get a new prefix.   It's the binding between the SLAAC address and the prefix that is stateful.   So the address itself isn't what's stateful.