RE: draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router-04 comments

["Hemant Singh (shemant)" <shemant@cisco.com>]

Barbara,

Such a thought has also been already captured in the CPE Rtr document - we agree with you.  See section 3.1 of Conceptual Configuration Variables, 4th bullet.  By default the document recommends if the device supports RIPng on the upstream WAN port(s), RIPng is disabled by default.

Hemant

-----Original Message-----
From: Stark, Barbara [mailto:bs7652@att.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 1:37 PM
To: Brian E Carpenter; Hemant Singh (shemant)
Cc: james woodyatt; IPv6 Operations; Wes Beebee (wbeebee)
Subject: RE: draft-wbeebee-ipv6-cpe-router-04 comments

> Yes, but if we conclude that it's desirable in general for
> CPE routers to behave like routers on their upstream link,
> AND if some ISPs don't want that, it should be a configuration
> issue to switch such behaviour on or off. IMHO.
> 
>    Brian

So, say something like "If the CPE Router is capable of behaving like a router on its upstream link, it MUST be possible to disable this behavior."?

This avoids the question of whether or not it's desirable (which we could probably argue endlessly), doesn't recommend the behavior, doesn't forbid the behavior, but makes sure the CPE Router can behave appropriately, when the WAN interface is connected to a service provider access network.
Barbara

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