Re: WG ACTION: 1 week to discuss [LL40] IPv4 LL does not alter the behavior of the DHCPv4 state machine

> From: "Ted Lemon" <[email protected]>
> ...
> This one I don't love:
> 
> > Note that this has not been observed in some early implementations of 
> > IPv4 Link-Local configuration."
> 
> I would say instead:
> 
> Several early implementations of IPv4 link-local have modified the DHCP 
> state machine in an attempt to make IPv4 link-local more reliable, and 
> the field experience we have gained from this has shown that it does 
> not work - reliability of DHCP service is significantly reduced.   If 
> increased reliability of IPv4 link-local is desired, we recommend that 
> the IPv4 link-local state machine track the DHCP client state machine 
> and, in cases where it is not certain that the DHCP-assigned address is 
> correct, the IPv4ll state machine acquire an IPv4ll address without 
> causing the DHCP state machine to relinquish its address.

That's fine by me.

Philip