>>>>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:03:41 -0700 (PDT), >>>>> Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> 5.7 Retaining Configured Addresses for Stability >> >> An implementation that has stable storage may want to retain >> addresses in the storage when the addresses were acquired using >> stateless address autoconfiguration. Assuming the lifetimes used are >> reasonable, this technique implies that a temporary outage (less than >> the valid lifetime) of a router will never result in the node losing >> its global address even if the node were to reboot. When this >> technique is used, it should also be noted that the expiration times >> of the preferred and valid lifetimes should be retained, instead of >> or in addition to the lifetimes themselves, in order to avoid >> unexpected lifetime expiration during the boot period. > The last part sounds like one need to make sure the address lives > long enough; my concern is about it living for too long. > So I'd reword the last sentence to say: > When this > technique is used, it should also be noted that the expiration times > of the preferred and valid lifetimes must be retained, in order to > prevent usage of an address after it has become invalid. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll use the reworded text then. JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------