Re: [rtcweb] Transports: RFC 4941 support?

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

Le 2014-03-19 11:21, Harald Alvestrand a écrit :
>> The application needs to indicate if it wants a temporary address. If
>> the host's policy (or configuration or network) does not support
>> temporary addresses, the application won't get a temporary address.  I
>> don't see why being silent helps?
> 
> What API is it using?
> 
> With a little Googling, the system policy I was thinking of was the
> policy in RFC 6724 ("Default Address Selection for IPv6"), in particular
> section 5 rule 7: "Prefer  temporary addresses".
> 
> I'm happy to say "it is a good idea for systems to implement the
> recommendations of RFC 6724" (or some more 2119-like language). I
> wouldn't want to claim that if a system has chosen to prefer
> non-temporary addresses, it would have to change its non-conformance to
> RFC 6724 in order to be conformant with RTCWEB specifications.

IMHO it would be perfectly sensible to recommend the use of
IPV6_PREFER_SRC_TMP [RFC5014].

Simon
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