>> I am a little bit confused what we are talking about. >> Our draft is necessary when there is no SLAAC. >> >> Could you elaborate your viewpoints? > >the PIO option in RA has several functions. > >1) with the A-flag on, it is used by SLAAC. >2) with the L-flag on, it is used for onlink determination (prefix discovery). > >"when there is no SLAAC" does that mean? > - there is no RA > - there is an empty RA (no PIO) > - the PIO has A-flag off > >if I understand your draft correctly, you want a DHCPv6 alternative to the RA >PIO option. >generally we try to avoid duplicate mechanisms, so could you please give a >use case?
If the current form of our draft misleaded you, we can modify our draft in future version. Our motivation is these two scenarios you stated. - there is no RA - there is an empty RA (no PIO) Best regards, Sheng >cheers, >Ole -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
