Re: [DNA] Comments on draft-pentland-dna-protocol3-00.txt

["Nick 'Sharkey' Moore" <sharkey@zoic.org>]

On 2005-11-08, Brett Pentland wrote:
> 
> In order to get a fast response, we need oDAD at least for the
> link-local address.  Are you talking about, say a global address
> that is using DAD?  I guess such an address should remain tentative
> and then if link change is detected, DAD should be reinitiated.

OptiDAD-06 3.1:
|
| * Optimistic DAD SHOULD only be used when the implementation is aware
| that the address is based on a most likely unique interface
| identifier (such as in [RFC2464]), generated randomly [RFC3041]
| or by a well-distributed hash function [RFC3972] or assigned by
| DHCPv6 [RFC3315].  Optimistic DAD SHOULD NOT be used for
| manually entered addresses.

So there may indeed be Tentative and Optimistic addresses on the same
host at the same time ...

-----Nick