On Friday 6th May 2011, Ole Troan wrote in part: > basically I want the document to say that IETF has standardised > two mechanisms to configure hosts. one using ND and one using DHCP. > As they apply to different management models, nodes SHOULD implement both.
On 12th May 2011, Thomas Narten responded in part: > I personally would support having DHCP be a SHOULD rather than a > MAY. The justification in my mind is that if you want the network > operator to have the choice of whether they want to use Stateless > addrconf OR DHCP, they only have that choice of devices widely > implement both. I share the views above. One wonders whether others also do. In some environments, IPv6 actually is NOT deployable unless/until DHCP for IPv6 is widely supported in IPv6 nodes. I agree with others here that cable modem deployments (e.g. DOCSIS) are one example where all node provisioning is handled via DHCP. A certain FTTH service that I myself use is a second example where DHCP is the node provisioning method. Numerous corporate, enterprise, educational, or government environments provide a 3rd example where DHCP for IPv6 is a pre-requisite for IPv6 deployment. Yours, Ran -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
