[mort96]

And how do I assign the devices globally unique IP addresses? SLAAC is only for local addresses, right?

[stavros]

Wouldn't IPv6 work for that?

[mort96]

I don't know what you mean. I asked what process you would use to assign IPv6 addresses.

[stavros]

Maybe I'm not understanding the use case. Why can't you use DHCPv6 or SLAAC wherever the device is deployed?

[mort96]

DHCP doesn't give you a globally unique IP address...

If you're suggesting getting using a non-unique DHCP-assigned local IP address, I don't understand what difference you think v6 does compared to v4.

[stavros]

DHCP does give you a globally unique IP address when your ISP has allocated a prefix to your router, that's how all the Internet-connected IPv6 devices get their addresses. Where is our misunderstanding?

[mort96]

...

For many of these systems, I don't control the user's router. I don't know how you imagine I'm supposed to create DNS records for each device when they're assigned some random IP address at some random network I don't control.