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The Universal IPv6 Router Advertisement Option (experiment)
draft-troan-6man-universal-ra-option-01

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Expired".
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Author Ole Trøan
Last updated 2019-07-01 (Latest revision 2018-12-28)
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Abstract

One of the original intentions for the IPv6 host configuration, was to configure the network-layer parameters only with IPv6 ND, and use service discovery for other configuration information. Unfortunately that hasn't panned out quite as planned, and we are in a situation where all kinds of configuration options are added to RAs and DHCP. This document proposes a new universal RA option in a self-describing data format, with the list of elements maintained in an IANA registry, with greatly relaxed rules for registration.

Authors

Ole Trøan

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