At Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:38:45 +0200, Dominik Elsbroek <dominik.elsbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's removed is the corresponding text, not the bits. See page 19 of > > RFC 4861: the bits are still there. > > In RFC4862, Appendix C there is one point: > > Removed the text regarding the M and O flags, considering the > maturity of implementations and operational experiences. > ManagedFlag and OtherConfigFlag were removed accordingly. (Note > that this change does not mean the use of these flags is > deprecated.) > > Not sure how to interprete this. Perhapts I am just missing a link, > but M and O flag in RFC 4861 doesn't tell how to do SLAAC, e.g. when > the nameserver should be determined by DHCPv6-server. As clearly noted, "removed" doesn't mean these flags were deprecated in the protocol. They were simply removed from the RFC4862 text as an out-of-scope item for that particular RFC (and the assumption was they should be standardized in other documents). --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
