Technical Summary
This document recommends that networks provide general-purpose end
hosts with multiple global IPv6 addresses when they attach, and
describes the benefits of and the options for doing so.
Working Group Summary
This particular draft has not been controversial; it borders on
stating the obvious, and certainly states a consensus of IPv6
operators and designers in the IETF. It does, however, recommend
a change from current general practice with DHCP/DHCPv6,
a change that the author's companies are explicitly exploring and
finding useful, which is to allocate a prefix to a host rather than
a single address.
Document Quality
This is not a protocol, it is a proposal regarding IPv6 protocol
deployment practice. That said, yes, there are multiple implementations.
Windows, MacOSX, Linux, and other operating systems expect to use
multiple addresses in the same prefix simultaneously, and common
practice using SLAAC directly supports this. The issue has to do with
DHCP/DHCPv6 address allocation, which a network operator might restrict
to a single address unnecessarily.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd is Fred Baker.
The AD is Joel Jaeggli.