On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote:
That is not what the decision said. The point was that the DHCP WG was not
going to decide for you what was necessary or appropriate to carry forward.
Rather than add baggage that nobody actually uses, there is nothing until
someone says 'I need that'. Never mind that DHCP wasn't defined when the
IPng work started, and wasn't in widespread use yet when DHCPv6 was being
started ...
and ipv4 didnt stop evolving when ipv6 started being
designed/engineered/'architected'. If new use cases, or different
business cases were evolved in th ev4 world, it seems that those
should have also trickled back into the v6 work. That does not seem to
have been the case, multihoming is but one example of this.
Nobody will stop you to go to RIR and argue for a PI address space for
IPv6. You will be able use PI IPv6 address similarly as you used PI IPv4.
This doesn't exactly follow for the IETF process, though it really
ought to for a goodly number of things. If you are using something in
v4, and it got added via the consensus process in the IETF, it's very
likely that you will need like functionality in v6. DHCP and
Multihoming are just 2 simple examples of this. I still can't see how:
"but v6 has autoconf so you don't need dhcp!" is even attempted as an
argument after 1996. Surely vendors of networking gear and consumer
OS's realized before 1996 that things other than 'address and default
route' are important to end stations?? I know these entities use other
features in their enterprise networks...
In IPv6 you have additional options next to static and DHCP the
autoconfiguration. Since autoconfiguration was developed earlier this
assumed to be avilable most of the IPv6 implementation. You can argue,
that DHCPv6 client support is vital part of IPv6 node requirements...
Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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the table with $$$ to make that happen... In the US, it is only the DoD. In
the ISP space, most of it comes from Japan. If you are not finding what you
I thougth EU also was spending on v6?
-chris
