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

Mark Prior mrp at mrp.net
Tue May 6 14:36:19 EST 2014


On 6/05/2014 12:42, Mark Newton wrote:
>
> 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.

Except that it would be a rare service provider that isn't also an 
end-user too.

Mark.



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