On 2008-10-16 14:15, David Conrad wrote: > Hi, > > On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: >> The IPv6 auto-configuration was modeled after IPX (based on XNS) >> auto-configuration. IPX was very successful at the time and it's >> auto-configuration mechanisms were considered an improvement over >> IPv4. At the time considered better for enterprises than IPv4. The >> IPv6 auto-configuration was based on a protocol that was very widely >> deployed. > > Since we're talking about history, one of the things I've always been a > bit confused about is how stateless auto-config is supposed to work with > Internet naming (as opposed to Appletalk (and I presume XNS) local > naming). In a world without DHCP and zero knowledge clients, how were > names supposed to be associated with nodes?
I'm not sure there was an answer to that when it was designed. I guess today we'd argue that DynDNS can be used to register MyPrinter.MyHouse.MyUserName.example.net, but I'm not too clear about the trust model. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
