[dhcwg] DHCPv6: Canonical way to handle an unknown option

[Gabor Retvari <retvari at tmit.bme.hu>]

Dear all,

What is the best way to handle a DHCPv6 message that contains an unknown 
DHCPv6 option? Should an implementation drop the message as a whole, once it 
encounters an unknown option in it, or should it drop only the option and 
carry on processing the rest of the message that it can make sense of? (It 
seems to me that wide-dhcp, for instance, implements the latter behavior.)

Could any one provide me with a pointer on the recommended way to handle 
unknown options in DHCPv6 implementations?

Best regards,
Gabor