So, change Ralph's text to SHOULD instead of MUST. The current text reads "should" and not "SHOULD".
-----Original Message-----
From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:02 PM
To: Ralph Droms
Cc: IPng List
Subject: Re: IPv6 working group agenda for Minneapolis IETF
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ralph Droms wrote:
> So, RFC 2462 only uses RFC 2119 keywords to describe the behavior of a host
> when the value of the 'O' flag remains unchanged. The text in section
> 5.5.3 needs to be updated to:
>
> If the value of OtherConfigFlag changes from FALSE to
> TRUE, the host MUST invoke the stateful autoconfiguration
> protocol [...]
>
> If the value of the OtherConfigFlag changes from TRUE
> to FALSE, the host SHOULD continue running the stateful
> address autoconfiguration protocol [...]
Strongly disagree. This would make about every IPv6 implementation not
supporting stateful protocols non-compliant.
In my view 'O' is just a hint to the nodes that thay should try to use a
stateful mechanism (as there is one in the specific network), if they have
one.
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Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall"
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