Warren Kumari ------ Please excuse typing, etc -- This was sent from a device with a tiny keyboard. On Jun 1, 2013, at 5:51 AM, Masataka Ohta <mohta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Doug Barton wrote: > >> Not picking on you here, in fact I'm agreeing with you regarding the >> early days. In '94 SLAAC/RA was a good idea, and remains a good idea for >> "dumb" devices that only need to know their network and gateway to be >> happy. > > Wrong. > Thank you for so eloquently proving Doug's point. W > Even at that time and even on small end user LANs, it is > better to let the gateway manage the address configuration > state in centralized fashion than to have, so called, SLAAC, > which is full of address configuration state, which is > maintained in fully distributed manner involving all the nodes. > > Masataka Ohta >