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

[Andrew Yourtchenko <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, 神明達哉 wrote:

> 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:-)

You are absolutely correct - it's a mostly verbatim copy-paste that needs 
to be rephrased. I think I grabbed it from your conversation with Lorenzo 
:-) I've captured this into https://github.com/ayourtch/ra-dhcpv6/issues/4

Thanks a lot! :)

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