As far as the IPv6 host is concerned, using stateful DHCPv6 is little different to using stateless DHCPv6 as the observed request/response times should be the same in most cases. However, it is possible that the extra overhead of reading and writing state to memory inside the DHCPv6 server may lead to a small increase in latency when compared to its stateless equivalent. This may be important for the configuration time of mobile nodes, which must perform address configuration when moving into a new network.

It is worth noting that most network operators (certainly those in 6NET) seem to favour the use of stateful DHCPv6 over stateless address configuration due to the extra control and documenting of address assignments that it provides.