[AusNOG] RFC7217 - "A Method for Generating Semantically Opaque Interface Identifiers with IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC)."

[Mark Newton]

On May 6, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Michael Biber <mbiber at ipv6forum.com.au> wrote:

> Thank you Mark.
> Whenever I do training, workshops or consulting discussions, I conduct a
> straw poll to see if people do or intend to use SLAAC. The answer is
> invariably no, with DHCPv6 dominating and static assignment taking up the
> rest. This varies by role...service provider/end user/DC/content provider.

Service providers shouldn’t be assigning end-user addresses;  they should be assigning prefixes.  Then the end user makes the policy decision about whether to use SLAAC or not for their hosts.


  - mark