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.
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