Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime-00.txt

[Mark Smith <[e-mail]>]

Hi All,

I've been thinking for a while that the Router Lifetime field name
wasn't as accurate and expressive as it could be, and then we had
somebody asking fairly recently on the mailing list about how Router
Lifetime and ND lifetime (IIRC) values interacted on the mailing list.

So an ID proposing to rename the field to Default Router Lifetime, and
also providing an example scenario of when a zero value Default Router
Lifetime would be used to demonstrate that a zero value RA is valid
and useful in some scenarios.

Comments and suggestions most welcome.

Thanks very much,
Mark.




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Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 at 18:14
Subject: New Version Notification for
draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime-00.txt
To: Mark Smith <[e-mail]>



A new version of I-D, draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Mark Smith and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:           draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime
Revision:       00
Title:          More Accurately Naming IPv6 RA Router Lifetime
Document date:  2021-05-04
Group:          Individual Submission
Pages:          4
URL:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime-00.txt
Status:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime/
Htmlized:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime
Htmlized:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime-00


Abstract:
   IPv6 Router Advertisements (RAs) have a "Router Lifetime" field,
   which specifies how long the advertising router will act as a default
   router for the receiving hosts, unless refreshed with another
   advertisement.  The field name "Router Lifetime" is quite general,
   and could easily be misunderstood to mean the bounded lifetime of all
   of the information contained in the RA.  This memo more accurately
   renames this field "Default Router Lifetime".




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