RE: address selection and DHCPv6

[Christian Huitema <huitema at windows.microsoft.com>]

> It matters only in that different assignment mechanisms have different
> inherent stabilities:
> 
> 	manual: "forever"
> 
> 	DHCPv6: until the lifetime expires and the server refuses to
> 		renew
> 
> 	stateless: until the network interface hardware is swapped

There is no inherent requirement that the host identifier be derived
from the interface hardware identifier. In a server environment, it
would make perfect sense to use another hardware identifier, or even a
logical identifier. That identifier would have pretty much the same life
time as a "manual" configuration.

-- Christian Huitema


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