Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft

Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> Mon, 14 April 2014 19:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft
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>> Only a host which runs a dhcpv4 client is ever going to act on this option.
>> From a strict point of view, it has nothing to do with ipv6.
> 
> Only a network that does provide IPv6 would ever want to set that
> option. It has *everything* to do with IPv6.

Nope…

Why wouldn’t a network that does not offer IPv4 autoconfigration not want to implement that option whether or not they do DHCPv6?

This is all about the unavailability of IPv4 auto configuration on the network. It has nothing inherently to do with IPv6 except that IPv6 is the most likely alternative to IPv4 that would be used. However, that’s just a likely majority use case, not the sole use case.

Owen