Re: Conclusion of Adoption Call for "Improving the Robustness of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Flash Renumbering Events"

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Fernando,

> On Jul 13, 2020, at 11:22 AM, Fernando Gont <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Hello, Bob,
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> On 13/7/20 14:59, Bob Hinden wrote:
>> This concludes the adoption call for "Improving the Robustness of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Flash Renumbering Events”
>> The chairs reading of results of the adoption call is that there is agreement that 6MAN w.g. should work on this problem, but there is not support for the solutions proposed in the document.
>> We found that Mikael Abrahamsson email captured this well:
>>   https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ipv6/01JrxBGiMmsKuB1bkks5NIgLxSQ
>>  "I agree that there are problems to be solved in this space (thus I support
>>   adoption), but I think that the current version of the draft is way too
>>   overengineered and "heavy handed". I think we can achieve all the benefit
>>   without changing so much of current behavior.”
>> The authors are instructed to remove the contents from Section 4 (the section headers can stay but the contents should be replaced with “TBD”) and submit a new draft named <draft-ietf-6man-slaac-renum-00> with these changes.  We will approve that as a w.g. document.
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> Just double-checking: Are you suggesting that we remove Section 4.5 or that we remove the contents of the entire Section 4?

Section 4.

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> There have been objections against Section 4.5, but I haven't seen any to the proposals in Section 4. In fact, even explicit support for some of such sections have been voice (Lorenzo for Section 4.2, Jen for Section 4.1.1, etc.).

We would like to see each discussed separately.  Some should be easy to add back in, others, like 4.5 will be harder.

Bob



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