Hi, Sujing, On 05/02/2013 05:14 AM, Sujing Zhou wrote: > > Have you ever considered add a date/time (optional ) parameter in > generation of the new RID, > for example: > RID = F(Prefix, Interface_Index, Network_ID, DAD_Counter,Date/Time, > secret_key), > thus will result in different IID each different year, each different > month, or even > different day. > > Of course, the IID owner can choose to change secret_key to obtain > different IID, > but with an addition of date/time option, it is more flexible.
Not really. The addresses are meant to be constant. And if you want to change them, it's better to update the secret key (updating the key is usually good, and you get the address change you expected as a side effect). Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
