3. Terminology

3. Terminology

This document uses the terminology defined in RFC 2460 [1] and RFC 3315. In addition, this document uses the following terms:

requesting router: The router that acts as a DHCP client and is requesting prefix(es) to be assigned.

delegating router: The router that acts as a DHCP server, and is responding to the prefix request.

Identity Association for Prefix Delegation (IA_PD): A collection of prefixes assigned to the requesting router. Each IA_PD has an associated IAID. A requesting router may have more than one IA_PD assigned to it; for example, one for each of its interfaces.