Re: 3484bis and privacy addresses

[Arifumi Matsumoto <[e-mail]>]

Dave and Ray,

thanks for putting together regarding these points.
I'll compile these into the revision of DHCP option draft soon.

Thanks !

On 2012/05/05, at 15:40, Ray Hunter wrote:

> ACK. Thanks.
> 
> Dave Thaler wrote:
>> I wrote in response to Ray Hunter:
>>> I take your comment as asking for a summary table in rfc 3484bis of
>>> system-wide config options.   That could be done as a purely editorial
>>> change, although if there's only 1 thing in the table it's less interesting.
>>> But if others in the WG think this would be helpful, then yes we can do that.
>> 
>> Turns out there were already 2 things so I've done this in -03.
>> 
>> OLD:
>> 	This specification optionally allows for the possibility of
>> 	administrative configuration of policy (e.g., via manual
>> 	configuration or a DHCP option such as that proposed in
>> 	[I-D.ietf-6man-addr-select-opt]) that can override the default
>> 	behavior of the algorithms.  The policy override takes the form of a
>> 	configurable table that specifies precedence values and preferred
>> 	source prefixes for destination prefixes.  If an implementation is
>> 	not configurable, or if an implementation has not been configured,
>> 	then the default policy table specified in this document SHOULD be
>> 	used.
>> 
>> NEW:
>> 	This specification optionally allows for the possibility of
>> 	administrative configuration of policy (e.g., via manual
>> 	configuration or a DHCP option such as that proposed in
>> 	[I-D.ietf-6man-addr-select-opt]) that can override the default
>> 	behavior of the algorithms.  The policy override consists of the
>> 	following set of state, which SHOULD be configurable:
>> 
>> 	o  Policy Table (Section 2.1): a table that specifies precedence
>> 	   values and preferred source prefixes for destination prefixes.
>> 	o  Automatic Row Additions flag (Section 2.1): a flag that specifies
>> 	   whether the implementation may automatically add site-specific
>> 	   rows for certain types of addresses.
>> 	o  Privacy Preference flag (Section 5): a flag that specifies whether
>> 	   temporary source addresses or stable source addresses are
>> 	   preferred by default, when both types exist.
>> 
>> This is purely an editorial change.   The rest of Ray's comments apply
>> to I-D.ietf-6man-addr-select-opt, which is already informatively
>> referenced in the above text.
>> 
>> -Dave
>> 
>> 
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