Re: [dhcwg] [Fwd: new issue: LL34 Better transition to routablefrom v4LL using DHCP]

[Mika Liljeberg <mika.liljeberg@welho.com>]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 20:56, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2003 12:37, Ted Lemon wrote:
> > So I think the right answer to this question is to simply decouple the
> > IPv4LL and DHCP state machines.
> 
> To be clear, I meant here "decouple the DHCP state machine from the IPv4ll 
> state machine," but not "decouple the IPv4LL state machine from the DHCP 
> state machine" - obviously this isn't possible if we do what I've proposed.

I don't think this is a particularly useful distinction.

>From the implementor's point of view the coupling either exists or it
doesn't. If it does exist an explicit interface is required between the
DHCP code and the v4LL code. How that interface is realized is an
implementation issue.

It would be better to have no coupling at all.

	MikaL


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