A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : DHCPv6 Prefix Length Hint Issues Authors : Yong Cui Tianxiang Li Cong Liu Filename : draft-cui-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-length-hint-issue-00.txt Pages : 9 Date : 2015-07-06 Abstract: DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation [RFC3633] allows a client to set a hint value in the prefix-length field of the IA_PD option to indicate a preference for the size of the prefix to be delegated, but is unclear about how the client and server should act in different situations involving the prefix length hint. This document provides a summary of the existing problems with the prefix length hint and guidance on what the client and server could do in the different situation involving the the prefix length hint. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cui-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-length-hint-issue/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cui-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-length-hint-issue-00 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt