Re: [v6ops] How do you solve 3GPP issue if neither operator nor handset supports PD?

[Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 7:24 AM Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, Gyan Mishra wrote:
>
> > How do we propose to solve this problem if operators don’t support PD
> even
> > though the  3GPP standard has supported PD for over 10 years.
> >
> > Another twist to this puzzle is Android has 90% of the mobile handset
> > marketplace worldwide and adamantly states they will NOT support DHCPv6
> or
> > PD.
> >
> > I researched Apple which has 10% of the market and they also do not
> support
> > PD.
> >
> > Whats the solution now?
>
> The obvious use-case for PD is the "LTE router" fixed-wireless use-case.
> There the problem of getting a DHCPv6-PD client into the UE isn't the same
> as on handsets. A lot of those platforms already support DHCPv6-PD for
> their wired versions (some have both LTE and wired WAN).


    Gyan>Agreed the obvious PD use case is for wired LTE but this
particular use case brought up in slaac problem statement draft is for
handsets.

>
>
> So this brings us back to the mobile core. Why doesn't this today, 8 years
> after DHCPv6-PD was introduced in 3GPP standards, still not support PD?


>
> I don't know but I know staff at operators who claim to have tried (more
> than 5 years ago). I do not know why their efforts failed. Perhaps the
> mobile core vendors successfully managed to divide the customer base so
> there was no critical mass. I can only speculate. I just find it weird
> that there are now demands to change *everything* downstream from the 3GPP
> bearer to handle smaller subnets instead of enabling PD in mobile core.


    Gyan> I have to research technical reasons why

>
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