universal RA option

j h woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org> Mon, 01 April 2019 19:57 UTC

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Subject: universal RA option
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Hi everyone,

If a universal option format is warranted for Router Advertisement messages, then I suggest defining it for all the messages in section 4 of RFC 4861, and not just for the Router Advertisement message. That would allow, for example, refactoring of this expired draft to use it:

	<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-templin-6man-rio-redirect>


--james woodyatt <jhw@conjury.org>