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To: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
CC: Johan Ihren <johani@autonomica.se>, Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>, dns op wg <dnsop@cafax.se>, ipng@sunroof.eng.sun.com
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:41:09 +0859 ()
In-Reply-To: <20030317060620.GA24236@login.ecs.soton.ac.uk> from Tim Chown at"Mar 17, 2003 06:06:20 am"
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: dns discovery for agenda? [Re: chairs and charter]

Tim;

> I think that, 
> for example, advertising DNS by RA's in IPv6 offers a veru useful "missing 
> piece" in the stateless autoconfiguration puzzle.

No, not at all.

> I have no objection to it 
> as *a* method, but in the scenario of my home network I'd be quite happy
> to run without statelessly configuring clients needing to use DHCP to get
> the DNS info.

The issue is merely that "stateless" approach is hopeless only to cause
a lot of problems when its application is seriously considered.

It is a problem of IPng group to remove "stateless" approach from IPv6
specification.

							Masataka Ohta
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