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Re: EXPERIMENTAL Variable SLAAC draft-mishra-6man-variable-slaac

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Thu, 17 December 2020 16:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: EXPERIMENTAL Variable SLAAC draft-mishra-6man-variable-slaac
To: Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi>, ipv6@ietf.org
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Le 17/12/2020 à 16:07, Markku Savela a écrit :
> Conserning the draft, why reserve a RA flag bit? Wouldn't the intent for 
> "variable length SLAAC" be already obvious from "Prefix length" field of 
> the RA Prefix information?

Indeed the flag bit in an RA might be redundant, because the intent for 
variable length SLAAC is already obvious from the plen field of the RA 
prefix information option.

The latest implementation gets rid of that new RA bit.

We have to update the Internet Draft to reflect that change.

Alex, with input from co-author

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