Re: [v6ops] Android must allow root access

[Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:

> I dont understand why the 64share INFORMATIONAL RFC does address 
> assignment by default, yet if I want to do it with the Prefix Delegation 
> Stds Track RFC I have to risk the platform by trying to root it.

That's because you're trying to install something on it by yourself, when 
the vendor has decided this is not something they want their users to do.

So proper procedure is to go to vendor and ask for feature.

I've been out of the loop for a long time now, but I still haven't heard 
of any mobile core vendor who implemented DHCPv6-PD. That's the right 
thing to get done (and for instance on some WWAN router to have DHCPv6-PD 
client), then after that you can grow the rest of the ecosystem by doing 
feature requests.

There is no standards action to be had here, the problem isn't with 
standards. It's with getting running code into all components needed to 
make this happen. There is nothing fundamental in 3GPP architecture that 
makes DHCPv6-PD hard to do, it's just that... nobody does it, so nobody 
tests against it.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [e-mail]