Re: lifetime of the IID - RFC 4941

2013-08-01 Thread Erik Nordmark
On 7/31/13 1:12 PM, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: From the above sections, I presume that the current approach in RFC 4941 uses the same approach that is defined in RFC 4862. So, it removes the IID independent of the upper layer protocols. For the questions you are asking, they behave the same. (The

Re: lifetime of the IID - RFC 4941

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Yourtchenko
Hosnieh, "an application layer lifetime". 1) The problem that this is a solution for. I've looked through the draft multiple times, and what I see is a generic abstract and then a very specific dive-in into the details. What I think is very much missing is - what is the application you see in m

lifetime of the IID - RFC 4941

2013-07-31 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
Let's first start the discussion about the lifetime of an IID. There are some sections in RFC 4941 that explains the lifetime of an IID The maximum lifetime is 1 week and preferred lifetime is 1 day. The address cannot exceed the maximum lifetime value. When it reaches to this maximum value, th