Re: rfc4941bis: Change to Valid Lifetime of temporary addresses

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

As discussed before, and also based on recent feedback, I'll be applying 
the following change to the next rev of the document.

This change changes the Preferred Lifetime and Valid Lifetime of 
temporary addresses to 1 day and two days, respectively, thus reducing 
the number of concurrent addresses.

If you have any objections, please speak up.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Fernando




On 30/1/20 19:27, Fernando Gont wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> It has been suggested by Lorenzo Colitti, David Farmer, and others, to 
> change the default Valid Lifetime of temporary addresses.
> 
> Namely, to change it from the current (RFC4941) "one week", to "two 
> days". This indirectly limits the maximum number of temporary addresses 
> employed by hosts. (2, compared to the current 11 (as per RFC4941)).
> 
> This requires these changes:
> 
> * Section 3.5:
> 
> OLD:
>     Because the precise frequency at which it is appropriate to generate
>     new addresses varies from one environment to another, implementations
>     SHOULD provide end users with the ability to change the frequency at
>     which addresses are regenerated.  The default value is given in
>     TEMP_PREFERRED_LIFETIME and is one day.  In addition, the exact time
>     at which to invalidate a temporary address depends on how
>     applications are used by end users.  Thus, the suggested default
>     value of one week (TEMP_VALID_LIFETIME) may not be appropriate in all
>     environments.  Implementations SHOULD provide end users with the
>     ability to override both of these default values.
> 
> NEW:
>     Because the precise frequency at which it is appropriate to generate
>     new addresses varies from one environment to another, implementations
>     SHOULD provide end users with the ability to change the frequency at
>     which addresses are regenerated.  The default value is given in
>     TEMP_PREFERRED_LIFETIME and is one day.  In addition, the exact time
>     at which to invalidate a temporary address depends on how
>     applications are used by end users.  Thus, the suggested default
>     value of two days (TEMP_VALID_LIFETIME) may not be appropriate in all
>     environments.  Implementations SHOULD provide end users with the
>     ability to override both of these default values.
> 
> 
> * Section 5:
> 
> OLD:
>     TEMP_VALID_LIFETIME -- Default value: 1 week.  Users should be able
>     to override the default value.
> 
> NEW:
>     TEMP_VALID_LIFETIME -- Default value: two days.  Users should be able
>     to override the default value.
> 
> 
> Comments? Objections?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,


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