Re: draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-04.txt [Re: [dnsop] WG Last Call: draft-ietf-dnsop-misbehavior-against-aaaa-00.txt]

[Pekka Savola <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, J-F C. (Jefsey)  Morfin wrote:
> At 14:23 25/03/04, Pekka Savola wrote:
> >OK; I tried to fuel the thinking a bit:
> >
> >         <t>A problem with defining the clean-up process is that it is
> >difficult to ensure that a specific IP address and the corresponding
> >record are no longer being used.  Considering the huge address space,
> >and the unlikelyhood of collision within 64 bits of the interface
> >identifiers, a process which would remove the record after no traffic
> >has been seen from a node in a period of time (e.g., a year) might be
> >one possible approach.</t>
> 
> Great: I mean in term of explaining - however I am not sure it
> should not call for a TTO (Time to Obsolecence) to be specified?

This was added just to convey the time frame, that is, "months or
years" rather than "every hour".  I'll change it to be a bit more 
vague..

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Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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