Re: PPPoE [Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6-cpe-router-03.txt]

[Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>]

>>   WLL-1:  If the WAN interface supports non-PPPoE Ethernet encapsulation,
>>           then the IPv6 CE router MUST support IPv6 over Ethernet [RFC2464].
>>
>>   WLL-2:  If the WAN interface supports PPP encapsulation:
>>
>>           (a)  The IPv6 CE router MUST support IPv6 over PPP [RFC5072].
>>
>>           (b)  In a dual-stack environment with IPCP and IPV6CP running
>>                over one PPP logical channel, the NCPs MUST be treated
>>                as independent of each other and start and terminate
>>                independently.  It SHOULD be configurable to restart the
>>                whole PPP session in the case of one NCP consistently
>>                failing to come up.
>
> In any case, it's best to avoid a normative reference to PPPoE [RFC2516],
> because that is not an IETF standard, so will require some extra
> bureaucracy at the IESG approval stage.

PPPoE is _just_ PPP from an IPv6 point of view.
with Brian's comment in mind. I would be inclined to delete the
reference to PPPoE in WLL-2.

cheers,
Ole