Re: RE: 3484bis and privacy addresses

[Ray Hunter <[e-mail]>]

ACK. Thanks.

Dave Thaler wrote:
> I wrote in response to Ray Hunter:
>> I take your comment as asking for a summary table in rfc 3484bis of
>> system-wide config options.   That could be done as a purely editorial
>> change, although if there's only 1 thing in the table it's less interesting.
>> But if others in the WG think this would be helpful, then yes we can do that.
>
> Turns out there were already 2 things so I've done this in -03.
>
> OLD:
> 	This specification optionally allows for the possibility of
> 	administrative configuration of policy (e.g., via manual
> 	configuration or a DHCP option such as that proposed in
> 	[I-D.ietf-6man-addr-select-opt]) that can override the default
> 	behavior of the algorithms.  The policy override takes the form of a
> 	configurable table that specifies precedence values and preferred
> 	source prefixes for destination prefixes.  If an implementation is
> 	not configurable, or if an implementation has not been configured,
> 	then the default policy table specified in this document SHOULD be
> 	used.
>
> NEW:
> 	This specification optionally allows for the possibility of
> 	administrative configuration of policy (e.g., via manual
> 	configuration or a DHCP option such as that proposed in
> 	[I-D.ietf-6man-addr-select-opt]) that can override the default
> 	behavior of the algorithms.  The policy override consists of the
> 	following set of state, which SHOULD be configurable:
>
> 	o  Policy Table (Section 2.1): a table that specifies precedence
> 	   values and preferred source prefixes for destination prefixes.
> 	o  Automatic Row Additions flag (Section 2.1): a flag that specifies
> 	   whether the implementation may automatically add site-specific
> 	   rows for certain types of addresses.
> 	o  Privacy Preference flag (Section 5): a flag that specifies whether
> 	   temporary source addresses or stable source addresses are
> 	   preferred by default, when both types exist.
>
> This is purely an editorial change.   The rest of Ray's comments apply
> to I-D.ietf-6man-addr-select-opt, which is already informatively
> referenced in the above text.
>
> -Dave
>
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