Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-v6ops-slaac-renum and draft-ietf-v6ops-cpe-slaac-renum

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

On 20/5/20 23:17, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> The recommendations in this document have to do with what the CE 
>> Router does, by default, without human intervention.
>>
>> We're not precluding CE Routers to have other knobs to do other things.
>>
>> So I fail to see why you say L-15 should be "relaxed". -- L-15 is not 
>> arguing that you should or should not manually configure stuff in your 
>> CE Router.
> 
> I suspect he’s interpreting it (and some vendors are not unlikely to as 
> well) to say that vendors should not allow this misconfiguration.
> 
> Perhaps if we add the words “by default” or something like that into the 
> language to make it clear that this specifies only the required default 
> behavior
> fo the CE Router and does not preclude knobs allowing one to 
> misconfigure their device to obtain a desired result it would address 
> his singular concern
> without relaxing the requirement to the point of doing substantial 
> damage elsewhere.

Then, how about adding this to the "Introduction" section:

"This document specifies recommendations for the default behavior of CE 
Routers, and does not preclude the availability of configuration knobs 
that might allow an operator or user to manually-configure the CE Router 
to deviate from these recommendations"

?

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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