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From:
Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
Date:
Mon, 14 Jul 2003 20:08:31 +0300 (EEST)
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Subject:
Re: IPv6 DNS Autoconfiguration
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 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
^^^
want, that this :-)
> understand. Reading 20 selected pieces of a large document fills that
> requirement, IMHO.
DOES NOT fill that requiremenent, that is..
I must have been really hurry when writing this, should have proof-read it
first.. :/
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
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