"Currently proposed solution for IPv6 Prefix Delegation is based on DHCPv6 protocol. We believe that in certain network topologies and configurations where the CPE routers may not be capable or configured to use DHCPv6 and hence can not utilize the currently proposed ipv6 prefix delegation procedure. Therefore an alternate ipv6 prefix delegation procedure that does not require or depend on the DHCPv6 protocol is needed."
Could you please elaborate on the above rationale for this work? Using the DHCPv6 packet format, PD is a 2 packet exchange, and nothing forces any implementation to use the rest of the DHCP machinery. The argument that CPE or routers do not implement DHCP is weak because they do not implement this new mechanism either... So if work need to be done, one could argue that implementing a solution based on the DHCPv6 packet format is faster as the mechanism is already standardized... Again, they would not have to implement the whole DHCPv6 machinery if they do not want to. - Alain. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
