Hi, I am reading the document and typing as I go along:
I do not know what a "disjoint" delegated prefix is. When googling, "disjoint" seems to be a computer science term. Does it warrant explanation in the document?
"Flooding mechanism", the description of that seems very specific? Shouldn't it be about synchronizing information between the nodes instead of talking about "reliable broadcast"?
I have now spent 30 minutes trying to grasp how the state machine works. I don't know exactly why, but it's really hard, and it's hard to understand why some of the wording was chosen the way they were. "Best Prefix" is confusing when I at the same time read about "Current Assignment". Perhaps some text explaining the rationale for the choice of words and why they are needed, ie not only describing what needs to be done, but also why. "case study" or "state study" is perhaps what I'm looking for. I think I understand what's going on, but having some concrete examples would help.
Another thing: If I know that I will receive 3 /56:es from my ISP, and I always want $LINK to use the $56PREFIX02::/64 for all delegated prefixes, I believe this is possible within the current algorithm, but it's not specifically stated. It's stated that manually chosen prefixes can be done, but not examples of how these might be chosen. I know this example from cisco: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/ip-version-6-ipv6/113141-DHCPv6-00.html
Here you can set "ipv6 address prefix-from-provider ::1:0:0:0:1/64" to achieve what I just described. In case of multiple delegated /56:es, some users might prefer that the same number subnet is chosen from all delegated prefixes.
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