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Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6


From: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:24:14 -0700

​In-line.

​
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:

​But 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


​I 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 IPv6
deployments in enterprises if there isn’t at least the choice of static,
single IPv6 addresses per device​


​My question was whether a mechanism that could provide a consistent
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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