Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

[Thomas Narten <[e-mail]>]

> I guess I was thinking that today you have a device, it either is
> configured to do dhcp or is manually configured or just is broken. In
> the v6 world you could just forget M&O and require someone to
> configure (via os config tweaks that already exist for v4 anyway)
> dhcpv6 if anything more complex than 'subnet + random address + defgw'
> are required (or if they just like DHCP over SLAAC).

Something like that. The key is that both are implemented. You can
then have defaults for whether or not they are enabled out of the box,
with switches to override the defaults.

But I'm thinking of zeroconfig in the general case. Just plug it into
the net, and it all just works. That means DHCP and SLAAC on by
default.

But zeroconfig isn't all that useful for some types of devices.  For
servers, routers, and other more "infrastructury" devices, it may be
fine to require some config before you plug the machine in.

Of course, manual config is always an option, in which case you turn
off SLAAC & DHCP (except for LL addrs).

Thomas