ID: More Accurately Naming IPv6 RA Router Lifetime (Re: New Version Notification for draft-smith-6man-accurate-ra-router-lifetime-00.txt)

[Mark Smith <[e-mail]>]

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On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 18:24, Mark Smith <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: <[e-mail]>
> 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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