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

[Lorenzo Colitti <[e-mail]>]

I don't think anyone ever said Android will not support DHCPv6 PD. That
said, implementing DHCPv6 PD on cellular is difficult for technical
reasons, including:

   - There is no DHCPv6 PD implementation in Android, so one would need to
   be written.
   - The natural place for such an implementation is in the IpClient code,
   which does not (yet?) run on cellular networks.

Something like the new RA option proposed in the 64share v2 thread (+Cameron
Byrne <[e-mail]>) - assuming it gains consensus - would be much
easier to implement.

As an alternative: it's possible to extend the Android telephony HAL to
allow the baseband to return a delegated prefix as well as the
directly-connected route. That way, if a modem vendor (e.g., Qualcomm,
Mediatek, ...) implements DHCPv6 PD in baseband-dependent code (which is
not part of the Android OS), it can simply pass up the prefix through the
HAL and the OS can use it.

As we know, DHCPv6 PD has been mentioned in 3GPP standards for several
releases. Are there any 3GPP specs on how prefix delegation should be used?
Are there any requirements that might simplify the implementation? For
example, a requirement that the delegated prefix may not change for the
lifetime of the session, and that its lifetime is infinite, would be
consistent with the 3GPP requirements around RAs, and would substantially
simplify implementation.

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 4:44 PM Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]> 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?
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