RE: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

"Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com> Wed, 04 April 2012 22:58 UTC

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From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com>
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>, "ipv6@ietf.org" <ipv6@ietf.org>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:58:27 -0500
Subject: RE: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set
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Can we vote to have your interpretation pasted into RFC 4862bis?

Honestly, that I get, at least.

Bert

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From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Karl Auer
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:42 PM
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Subject: Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 16:12 +0200, Fernando Gont wrote:
> I'm curious about why the corresponding text was removed. In particular
> when at the time (2007) the DNS options was not yet widely implemented,
> and hence you *needed* DHCPv6 to learn the addresses of recursive DNS
> servers dynamically.

Me too!

The RFC4862 says

   "Removed the text regarding the M and O flags, considering the
    maturity of implementations and operational experiences.
    ManagedFlag and OtherConfigFlag were removed accordingly. (Note
    that this change does not mean the use of these flags is
    deprecated.)"

The only way I can interpret this is "people are doing whatever the hell
they like with these flags, and some of those implementations are pretty
well-established, so we are not going to try to define how the flags
should be used because no matter what we say, it will conflict with the
way someone out there is doing things. However, people should definitely
still use these flags! We aren't taking them away, we're just refusing
to define how they should be used."

It seems a strange thing to say, so maybe my interpretation is wrong :-)

Regards, K.

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