Re: [v6ops] A broken promise - "You said PD Prefix Valid Lifetime is going to be X" (Re: SLAAC renum: Problem Statement & Operational workarounds)

Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org> Fri, 08 November 2019 12:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] A broken promise - "You said PD Prefix Valid Lifetime is going to be X" (Re: SLAAC renum: Problem Statement & Operational workarounds)
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>>>> I think Ole observed that this is contrary to what the PD 
>>>> prefix's Valid Lifetime said would be the case. The ISP supplied 
>>>> a PD Prefix with a Valid Lifetime of X seconds, and then broke 
>>>> that promise by abruptly changing addressing before X seconds. 
>>>> ISPs should be expected to live up to their Valid Lifetime 
>>>> promises.
>>> 
>>> "Hope" doesn't make networks run properly.
>> 
>> This isn't "Hope", this is breaking promises, and that does break 
>> networks. If you can't at least trust that promises are intended to 
>> be kept then you have no network at all...
> 
> They are intended to be kept, but at times s* happens e.g., CPE routers
> don't crash and reboot on purpose.

This comment worries me.
That a CE reboots is _not_ the problem, nor does it cause the problem.

Cheers,
Ole