Re: I-D ACTION:draft-tacsik-pppext-ipcp-opt-ipv6-sip-proxy-00.txt

John Bray <[email protected]>
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I just realized I was not subscribed to ietf-ppp-post (I get my IETF mail 
via an exploder), so this post was filtered out.  Resending...

John Bray

>Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:26:57 -0500
>To: [email protected]
>From: John Bray <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-tacsik-pppext-ipcp-opt-ipv6-sip-proxy-00.txt
>Cc: [email protected]
>
>Please do not do this.  This idea was already shot down for IPv4.  It is 
>no more valid for IPv6.
>
>Please use DHCP.  In fact, doesn't RFC 3319 handle this?
>
>John Bray
>
>At 03:28 PM 12/5/2003, [email protected] wrote:
>>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
>>directories.
>>
>>
>>         Title           : IPv6CP option for IPv6 SIP Proxy address
>>         Author(s)       : E. Tacsik
>>         Filename        : draft-tacsik-pppext-ipcp-opt-ipv6-sip-proxy-00.txt
>>         Pages           : 11
>>         Date            : 2003-12-5
>>
>>This document defines a new PPP IPCP CONFIGURATION OPTION TYPE for
>>returning the addresses of IPv6 SIP proxy server(s). This option
>>provides one mechanism that a system may use to locate IPv6 SIP proxy
>>server(s). This approach is applicable for a system that is using
>>IPv4 over PPP for the link layer protocol and IPv4 address
>>allocation.
>>
>>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
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