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Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

<Basavaraj.Patil@nokia.com> Fri, 13 May 2011 19:01 UTC

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From: Basavaraj.Patil@nokia.com
To: jhw@apple.com, cb.list6@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD
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On 5/13/11 1:56 PM, "ext james woodyatt" <jhw@apple.com> wrote:

>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.

How a MIP6 (or DSMIP6) MN configures the IPv6 CoA has no bearing on the
present discussion.
I do agree with Cameron that a MUST for mobile devices is a bad idea.

-Raj


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