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From:
Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Date:
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 18:13:05 +0300 (EEST)
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Subject:
Re: IPv6 DNS Autoconfiguration
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote: > > Beforehand, I'd like to summarize my talk for today's > > discussion about DNS Discovery and Autoconfiguration. > > Autoconfiguration, as expected by IPv6 folds, is just impossible > that it is a pity that DNSOP WG is contaminated. > > Autoconfiguration is easy on a single link isolated from the > Internet. But, that's all. FWIW, my opinion on the subject; DHCPv6-lite has been proposed as a means how to fix this problem. My issue with DHCPv6-lite is that DHCPv6 spec is some 89 pages, and most options are some 5 (or more) pages more, each. Even though DHCPv6-lite is only a subset of that, it still requires reading, understanding etc. a lot of it. It's much more difficult to get the "big picture" of DHCPv6-lite this way. Now, if we had specified DHCPv6 without address assignment (like I suggested, but that's beside the point), and put all of the stateful stuff ("cruft") in a separate "extension" RFC, we'd be talking about an entirely different issue. I was a very simple to implement, robust mechanism that's easy to understand. Reading 20 selected pieces of a large document fills that requirement, IMHO. I want a spec which is simple and clear, and less than 15-20 pages long. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.