Re: [v6ops] New Version Notification for draft-yourtchenko-ra-dhcpv6-comparison-00.txt (fwd)

[神明達哉 <[e-mail]>]

At Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:06:03 +0100 (CET),
Andrew Yourtchenko <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Finally I managed to comb a little bit and finally submit the doc that
> aims to compare RAs with DHCPv6 which emerged from the discussion on this
> list a few weeks ago.
>
> I'll be very happy to hear any comments, suggestions, flames, etc.

A minor point: this paragraph of Section 2.9 would need some editorial
cleanup:

   On the other hand, it could be argued down to a choice of API:
   writing programs handling RA options like RDNSS is no harder than
   writing DHCPv6 client in terms of socket API.  As long as the system
   supports RFC3542 you should be able to write a portable RA "client"
   pretty easily (meaning as easy/hard as writing some UDP client
   program).  For example, FreeBSD's rtsold supports RDNSS and (AFAIK)
   only relies on the RFC3542 APIs.  Also, since DHCP is trickier than
   other UDP applications in some points (it's more sensitive to which
   interface to use, and in some cases you need to make sure the source
   address is link-local, etc), it's quite likely that you'll need
   something like unusual APIs like RFC3542 or some non-portable system
   dependent interface to write a standard-compliant DHCP(v6) client.
   So, overall, I'd say the programming difficulty regarding UDP (DHCP)
   vs ICMP (RS/RA) is marginal.

In that it contains some too-informal phrases like "AFAIK" or "I'd
say".  It looks like a mostly verbatim copy of some email message:-)

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JINMEI, Tatuya