Re: Request for Advices on the draft "draft-cha-ipv6-ra-mo-00.txt"

[Brian Haberman <brian at innovationslab.net>]

Joseph,
     Do you have a particular security model in mind for giving Router 
Advertisements the power to control software functionality on each node? 
 It would seem quite dangerous to enable/disable DHCPv6 clients 
arbitrarily based on bit settings in un-protected RA messages.

Regards,
Brian


HYUN WOOK CHA wrote:
> Hello, Ted.
>
> That's correct. I believe that the ability to stop DHCP clients using
> M/O bits in RA is required once they were invoked by M/O bits in RA.
>
>
> Joseph
>
> ------- Original Message ------- Sender : Ted
> Lemon<Ted.Lemon at nominum.com> Date   : 2008-09-30 09:36 (GMT+09:00) 
> Title  : Re: Request for Advices on the draft
> "draft-cha-ipv6-ra-mo-00.txt"
>
> Joseph, to summarize, it sounds like you believe that the ability to
>  stop DHCP clients broadcasting on a link is a requirement.   And you
>  therefore think that deprecating the M&O bits is not the right 
> answer.   Is that correct?
>
>
>
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