[v6ops] Re: Dynamic addresses

[Brian Candler <[e-mail]>]

On 11/08/2024 03:09, David Farmer wrote:
> That being said, whether or not to maintain the same prefix across 
> reboots should be in control of the end user, not necessarily the CPE 
> manufacturer or the ISP. Only the end user knows if their use case is 
> advantaged or disadvantaged by getting a new prefix on power loss or 
> other reboots.

I'm afraid I don't see what any of this has to do with IPv6: the same 
issue applies for whether you keep your same IPv4 address or not.

Getting a new IPv4/IPv6 allocation on session disconnect and reconnect 
is a matter of network design.  If the network design is that aggregate 
address pools are routed to BRASes, and the end user's address is 
allocated by the BRAS from its pool, then when you reconnect to a 
different BRAS you'll get a different address. So be it.

If the ISP forces a new IPv4/IPv6 address periodically while your 
session is established, that is clearly stupid, whether or not it is 
mandated by government (although Citation Needed, as Wikipedia would say)

However, I don't think RFCs can enumerate all the possible stupid things 
that a provider or government might choose to do, and suggest that they 
SHOULD NOT or MUST NOT do it.