RE: [Pppext] Is there a IPv6 Configuration Protocol Options for DNS IP address?

pppext-admin@ietf.org <mailto:pppext-admin@ietf.org> writes:

> At 01:42 AM 5/10/2004, Mykim wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Is there a IPv6 Configuration Protocol Options in IPv6CP?
>> If there is no IPv6 Configuration Protocol Option then I'd like to
>> know how to get IPv6 DNS address when negotiate PPP.
> 
> Use DHCP.
> 
>> (I found draft document which is filed as "PPP IPV6 Control Protocol
>> Extensions for DNS Server Addresses". But, it was expired at
>> December 2004 and not published as RFC.)
> 
> It was rejected by the working group.  The consensus was that it
> duplicated the existing capability already provided by DHCP.

One might add that the IETF is rapidly duplicating the capability
already provided by ISO/OSI: that of valuing intellectual purity over
running networks; if this continues, one might also expect a similar
slide into irrelevance and the twilight obscurity of textbook footnotes.
OF course, CDMA2000 vendors won't throw away backward compatibility with
their installed base just because the IETF says "use DHCP", nor does
this edict change the reasons that they didn't implement DHCP in the
first place.  I expect that what will happen is that 3GPP2 will simply
define a new vendor-specific option and use PPP.  The WG will have
washed its hands, to the effect that an even larger percentage of PPP
implementations will be non-standard.

> 
> John
> 
> 
>> I expect your prompt reply.
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Hope this helps,

~gwz

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