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Re: [v6ops] Thoughts on draft-yourtchenko-ra-dhcpv6-comparison

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Mon, 16 December 2013 13:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Thoughts on draft-yourtchenko-ra-dhcpv6-comparison
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On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:48 AM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> wrote:
> I think that at least initially, what we should try to achieve is a comparison of the properties of the protocols themselves, not make recommendations of which to use. 
+1

> Second: some of the text you have now deals with link-layer performance. However, I think that since these are configuration protocols, the attributes that are important are primarily semantics, not performance or implementation.

Lorenzo, this is kind of a puzzling position to take.   There are lots of ways to do things with really nice semantics that fall on their face for performance reasons.   So I think performance questions are in scope.

Thanks for the thorough review!

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