On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
I can see that in the ipv6 world I'd want to do the same sort of thing, assign addresses (and retain the capability to shift dns, tftp, wins, etc) around from a central control point. I'd also like to not have random things plugged into my LAN get globally reachable addresses (and/or access to my internal LAN's secrets, etc).
Exactly, this is why people who need to have some kind of tracking need DHCP.
<http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Security/SAFE_RG/chap5.html> describes some of the mechanisms used for IPv4 to achieve this.
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