[147899] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Mon Dec 26 00:08:04 2011
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:09:01 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CALOgxGbq8kVXtkXX-dpBmc9Jy+iP7HAc6v6C-WtNF0R7cTestg@mail.gmail.com>
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TJ wrote:
> I think perhaps you are confusing "what must be supported by
> implementations" (and ignoring the text describing the requirements) as
> stated in 6434, with operational usage.
There is not much difference.
> For example - SLAAC must be supported by the implementations, but an
> environment isn't required to use it.
Still, if ND, which SHOULD be implemented, is not implemented,
SLAAC CAN NOT be implemented.
And, if RA is obsoleted, which is a point of discussion, there
is no reason to keep so bloated ND only for address resolution.
Masataka Ohta
