[ipv6hackers] slaac-renum: New rev of draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08.txt)

[Fernando Gont]

Folks,

We have posted a revision of draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum. It is
available at:
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08.txt

This document proposes IPv6 SLAAC protocol updates to improve the
robustness of SLAAC in the presence of renumbering events.

The main changes incorporated in this version are:

* We have eliminated the counter-based algorithm from Section 4.5

Previous revisions of the draft contained two alternative algorithms in
Section 4.5: a counter-based algorithm, and a timer-based algorithm. The
timer-based algorithm is more robust and simple, so it didn't make sense
to keep the counter-based algorithm. (Kudos to Philip Homburg for
"pushing" us to improve the algorithm).

* Clarified the terminology used in the document

This is a rather minor detail. We simply have spelled out that
throughout the document, "GUAs" refer to "globally reachable" addresses
(as opposed to ULAs).


The diff from the last rev is available at:
https://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08.txt

As always, your feedback will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Fernando




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Subject: New Version Notification for draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08.txt
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 23:25:39 -0700
From: interne...@ietf.org
To: Richard Patterson <richard....@sky.uk>, Jan Zorz <j...@go6.si>,
Fernando Gont <fg...@si6networks.com>


A new version of I-D, draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08.txt
has been successfully submitted by Fernando Gont and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name: draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum
Revision: 08
Title: Improving the Robustness of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
(SLAAC) to Flash Renumbering Events
Document date: 2020-05-18
Group: Individual Submission
Pages: 24
URL: https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08.txt
Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum/
Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08
Htmlized: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum
Diff: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-08

Abstract:
In renumbering scenarios where an IPv6 prefix suddenly becomes
invalid, hosts on the local network will continue using stale
prefixes for an unacceptably long period of time, thus resulting in
connectivity problems. This document improves the reaction of IPv6
Stateless Address Autoconfiguration to such renumbering scenarios.




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