we can deploy DHCPv6 very quickly to provide prefixes. that will be the deciding factor but will the spec work? thats our job here. If you don't want to work on it don't.
/jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Lutchansky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PPP and Global Addresses > > > IMO, there are two separate scenarios in which some sort of prefix > delegation needs to be used: > > 1) A router establishes a point-to-point connection to a provider. > 2) A new router is connected to a site's backbone link. > > From Brian Haberman's comments at the interim meeting, it > seemed that APD > was designed for scenario (2), providing a means to "grow a > network" (his > words) without need for manual configuration. > > However, scenario (1) seems much more common, and indeed was > the origin of > this thread. Small IPv6 sites are inevitably connected to > the 6bone with > either a p-t-p tunnel or PPP, and there is no good reason we > shouldn't > have some kind of mechanism to autoconfigure the border > routers at these > sites. A draft by Itojun > (draft-itojun-ipv6-dialup-requirement-02.txt) > describes some of the mechanisms that could be used for > configuration, but > makes no recommendations. > > Instead of using a stateful protocol like DHCPv6 or APD to configure > customer sites, perhaps it would be best to use router > advertisements on > the p-t-p link. This was one of the more popular candidates > for dialup > configuration during Itojun's presentation in Seattle (the > other popular > candidate was APD). Instead of overloading the Prefix > Information option, > however, we could add an additional option to the router advertisement > messages, "Delegated Prefix". This option could only be used on p-t-p > links, of course. > > This technique would be lightweight, would be easy to > implement for both > the ISP and client sides, and would provide all the > functionality needed > for 90% of sites. -Nathan > > -- > +-------------------+---------------------+------------------------+ > | Nathan Lutchansky | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Lithium Technologies | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's | > | business on earth... I like a state of continual becoming, | > | with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw | > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
