Re: [v6ops] [dhcwg] IPv6-Only Preferred DHCPv4 option

[Roy Marples <[e-mail]>]

On 05/12/2019 01:19, Mark Smith wrote:
> Going by the now almost entire lack of existence of Appletalk, IPX,
> DECNET, XNS, VINES (I haven't seen or heard of any of them in a
> network since 1999),  it's likely IPv6 will be the single network
> layer protocol in the future. Running a single network layer protocol
> is cheaper and easier, which is why those others have gone away (that
> also explains why nearly all links use or emulate (Wifi) Ethernet
> framing, unless they specifically can't).
> 
> IPv6 will have a life, just as IPv4 has had a life, and those other
> past protocols have had a lives. IPv6 is designed to last for much
> longer than almost any of them, centuries most likely, so I don't
> think we shouldn't be worrying about accommodating "IPv8" now at the
> cost of making IPv4 easier to move away from. We don't have any idea
> what "IPv8"'s transition requirements are or what it will even look
> like.

And this affects the wording and intent of my proposal how?

1 client sends DISCOVER with I CAN WORK WITHOUT DHCP ADDRESS option
2 server sends I HAVE NO DHCP ADDRESS option with T2 timer
3 client reads this and will retry in T2 seconds

This satisfies the use case the OP put forward and makes no mention of 
any other protocol than DHCP AND makes things much simpler to actually 
implement.
What did I miss?

Roy