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Re: SLAAC protocol improvements for flash renumbering (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-02.txt)

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 24 February 2020 19:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: SLAAC protocol improvements for flash renumbering (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-02.txt)
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Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> wrote:
    >> The issue is that I want to have a separate checkbox on routers
    >> and hosts for whether they include the updates.
    >> Q: "Do you support RFCXXXX"?
    >> A: Well, yes, but not sure what to do with section 4.3, since we aren't a router,
    >> so we aren't compliant.

    > I see your point. HOw about if we were to re-arrange the sections into "Host
    > specification" and "Router specification", so to speak, within the same
    > document?

I still would prefer separate documents, but I know the IESG is less fond of
more documents.   Maybe the router side stuff could into another document.

    > At the end of the day, e.g. both the host-side and the router-side of slaac
    > are specified in the same document (RFC4862).

I think that was a mistake, but I'm sure it made sense at the time.
I don't feel strongly about this though.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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