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Re: [v6ops] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-hilliard-v6ops-host-addr-update-00.txt

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Mon, 17 July 2017 23:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-hilliard-v6ops-host-addr-update-00.txt
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On 18/07/2017 05:47, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> draft-hilliard-v6ops-host-addr-update-00 has just been posted as an ID.
> 
> It has recently been claimed that IETF best current practice is that
> DHCPv6 is not recommended due to the recommendations section in
> RFC7934/BCP204.

I'm a bit confused. That section says

>> The prefix MAY be provided
>> using DHCPv6 PD, SLAAC with per-device VLANs, or any other means. 
>> 
>> Using stateful address assignment (DHCPv6 IA_NA or IA_TA) to provide
>> multiple addresses when the host connects (e.g., the approximately 30
>> addresses that can fit into a single packet) would accommodate
>> current clients...

I am rather unclear how that could be understood to mean that DHCPv6
is NOT RECOMMENDED (which is very different from not saying RECOMMENDED).

    Brian

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