in the enterprise "initially" they will run dhcpv6 because stateless for wireline will not be used is my opinion. reason is control. /jim
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Pekka Savola > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:12 AM > To: JINMEI Tatuya / çæéå > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: M/O flags: hints vs more [Re: the protocols for the > M/O flags (Re: [rfc2462bis] whether we need the M/O flags)] > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]@C#:H wrote: > > - details of the relationship between each flag and protocol, e.g. > > whether we should mandate to invoke the protocol or we can just > > regard the flag as a hint and let the host decide if it > invokes the > > protocol (as Christian suggested), etc. > > I support Christian's suggestion; they should be just hints. > > No flag is going to force the node to run a protocol. More > often than not, for implementation simplicity, I'd guess most > nodes (especially where DHCPv6 is available), the nodes are > going to run DHCPv6(-lite) in any case, whether they saw a > flag or not. > > On the other hand, absence of a flag is not going to prevent > a node from running a protocol. > > -- > Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the > Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." > Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > LR¿¬(®H§‚ 蚊X§‚X¬¶*oê'~ŠàÙž+-«b½ä^ªçÈm¶›?ÿ 0Ö'~Šàþf¢–f§þX¬¶)ßø©¿
