[180829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Hardie)
Wed Jun 10 18:36:26 2015
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:24:14 -0700
From: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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=E2=80=8BIn-line.
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
> On 6/10/15 2:46 PM, Ted Hardie wrote:
>
>> =E2=80=8BBut understanding whether what we're actually
>> looking for is "static" or "single" is a pretty key piece of the
>> requirements scoping, and it sounds like "static" is it, at least from
>> your perspective. Is that a fair assessment?
>>
>
> Ted,
>
> I honestly can't tell if you're deliberately misrepresenting my argument,
> or if you're just being dense. You snipped the several places in my
> previous message where I stated what I think the best way forward is. But
> just in case it's the latter, not the former:
>
> "I think PD is the right answer here of course ..."
>
> "Meanwhile, DHCPv6 + PD solves all of Lorenzo's stated problems, but he
> won't implement it because "DHCP." That's not something you can engineer
> around."
>
> Doug
>
>
=E2=80=8BI think we lost context here. I started out asking a question in =
response
to this statement by Matthew Huff:
Authentication, Authorization, Accounting, ACLS, NMS, IDS, IP management,
> custom software, and other roadblocks will certainly stall if not stop IP=
v6
> deployments in enterprises if there isn=E2=80=99t at least the choice of =
static,
> single IPv6 addresses per device=E2=80=8B
=E2=80=8BMy question was whether a mechanism that could provide a consisten=
t
mapping from prefix to user (or device) met the requirements above,
whatever size the prefix provided happened to be. I wasn't trying to probe
for which mechanism in that part of the question. I understand from your
comments that you prefer DHCPv6 +PD.
regards,
Ted
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