Re: [v6ops] disconnected homenets (was: #2 Regarding isolated networks)

[Mark Andrews <[e-mail]>]

In message <[e-mail]>, Randy Bush writes:
> >> The use case I like to imagine is a home user streaming a video from
> >> their NAS to their TV over their internal network. That should use
> >> ULAs so that a failure of their Internet connection/Global addressing
> >> has no impact on watching their movie.
> 
> this is yet another red herring (which this wg seems to love).  if there
> is no external connection, whatever address prefix the LAN is using will
> still work.

But choosing the wrong one will potentially cause problems when the
net reconnects.  You can't safely keep using a PD assigned prefix
after the lease has expired across a reconnect event.

Note we have already agreed that there is no such thing as a
permanently disconnected network.  

> randy
> 
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