Re: [rfc2462bis] whether we need the M/O flags

[JINMEI Tatuya / $B?@L@x#:H(B <jinmei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:28:02 -0700, 
>>>>> Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@Sun.COM> said:

>> At this time, the chairs believe that there is code that
>> sets the M&O bits and at least one implementation that reads and acts
>> on these bits.

> This is certainly not enough to claim interoperability.

Moreover, this (what Brian said) is not correct, as far as I know.

The facts are:

  1. there is code that sets the M&O bits. (router implementations)
  2. there are at least two implementations that read and act on the O
     bit.  These two implementations both invoke stateless DHCPv6 as
     the action.
  3. there is no known implementation that reads and acts on the M
     bit.

As I repeatedly said, I don't stick to deprecating these bits.
However, we at least need to discuss things on the correct
information.

My biggest question is: can we recycle rfc2462bis as DS despite fact
3?

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp

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