Re: [dhcwg] WG consensus action: ACCEPT LL34 better transition to routable from v4LL using DHCP

    Date:        Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:46:35 -0500
    From:        Ted Lemon <[email protected]>
    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

  | A device that implements both IPv4ll and a DHCPv4 client MUST NOT alter 
  | the behavior of the DHCPv4 client to accommodate the IPv4ll state 
  | machine.

That's too much, for two reasons.   First, we don't specify how implementers
implement the specifications, just the end results - so that's inappropriate
right from the start.   Second, if I want to alter my dhcp client, to
have the LL address generation done by it, as well as dhcp address aquisition,
why shouldn't I?    Or if I just want to provide info from my dhcp client.

I know those aren't the kinds of modifications you're concerned about, but
they're covered by that blanket exclusion.

If anything needs to be said, all it needs to be is that the DHCP state
machine is not altered by LL.   That's it.

kre