Re: [Snac] draft-ietf-snac-simple-01 review comments

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

If the home router does PD, we still need a way to send the same iaid and
duid. Making sure the network has a stable id is hard. Thread solves this
by having sleepy devices rely on a neighbor that is not sleepy to deal with
numbering.

Op ma 24 jul 2023 om 12:16 schreef Michael Richardson <[e-mail]
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> Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
>     > This would not work for WiFi networks, but possibly we could use the
>     > SSID for this case? Maybe there's not enough randomness in it, but
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> That seems okay for me, if you put it through some PRF.
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>     > since it only has to be unique to the AIL, and can't be routed,
> perhaps
>     > that's okay. Is there any other equivalent thing we could do? I'm
>     > highly inclined to just get rid of the "try to remember old prefixes"
>     > text, because our experience is that this approach failed pretty
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>     > resulting in reachability problems that took significant time to
>     > resolve.
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> So, the stub network gets renumbered after a mains failure?
> (How many thunder storms you get this July?  We got 3-4/week it seems)
> Some battery powered devices will survive and have the old prefixes.
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> I'm just not keen on this.
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> Does the problem go away if the home router does PD?
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