>>>>> On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 10:10:37 +0200, 
>>>>> Jari Arkko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>> This document doesn't say anything about preferred lifetimes from this
>> part to the end of this section.

> Oops. This could cause all addresses to go deprecated. That in itself
> may not be too dangerous, however, since according to 5.5.4 you must be
> able to still use deprecated addresses even on new connections if there
> are no other available addresses. But I agree that it would be good to
> avoid this.

(I'm not objecting to this particular view, but)

To make the point clearer, my main point was not how to avoid "DoS"
for preferred lifetime.  My point was RFC2462 didn't say anything
about the update of the preferred lifetime, even for normal cases.
(See my response to Francis for more details)

                                        JINMEI, Tatuya
                                        Communication Platform Lab.
                                        Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
                                        [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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