John - I agree that "the goal of 2462(-bis) is STATELESS ADDRESS AUTOCONFIG." However, the bits controlling use of stateless/stateful are also defined in RFC 2462bis, so RFC 2462bis goes a little beyond just defining how stateless address autoconfig. Invoking the camel's nose principle, and striving for clarity, I would suggest that it would be appropriate for RFC 2462bis to explicitly define the stateful protocol as RFC 3315, with an informative reference to RFC 3315.
- Ralph
At 06:36 AM 3/4/2004 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pekka,
I suspect we are playing games with language, but ...
> > The easiest solution to them would be to list RFC3315 as an > > informative reference. I don't know whether this is acceptable. > > According to Section 2.7 of draft-rfc-editor-rfc2223bis-07.txt, > > Normative references specify > > > > - documents that must be read to understand or implement the > > technology in the new RFC > > - documents whose technology must be present for the technology > > in the new RFC to work > > > > But the first condition seems to me a bit subjective. Under which > > requirement can we decide a document must be read for a different > > document? > > I don't think this is a problem. You don't have to understand DHCPv6 > to ignore M/O bits -- which you only act upon IF you have implemented > DHCPv6 -- and then you understand it already :).
.. but the goal of 2462(-bis) is STATELESS ADDRESS AUTOCONFIG. I don't think that this document has ANY normative dependencies on Stateful Address Autoconfig. Re-reading the draft several times, I can only see that DHCPv6 is informative, at best.
John
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