This draft might be of interest to 6lo participants; it is on the agenda
for the 6man meeting this week.
Regards,
Erik
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Subject: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh-02.txt
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:53:58 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: Erik Nordmark <[email protected]>, Andrew Yourtchenko
<[email protected]>, Suresh Krishnan <[email protected]>
A new version of I-D, draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh-02.txt
has been successfully submitted by Erik Nordmark and posted to the
IETF repository.
Name: draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh
Revision: 02
Title: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Optional RS/RA Refresh
Document date: 2016-10-31
Group: 6man
Pages: 13
URL:
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh-02.txt
Status: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh/
Htmlized: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh-02
Diff: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-6man-rs-refresh-02
Abstract:
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery relies on periodic multicast Router
Advertisement messages to update timer values and to distribute new
information (such as new prefixes) to hosts. On some links the use
of periodic multicast messages to all host becomes expensive, and in
some cases it results in hosts waking up frequently. Many
implementations of RFC 4861 also use multicast for solicited Router
Advertisement messages, even though that behavior is optional.
This specification provides an optional mechanism for hosts and
routers where instead of periodic multicast Router Advertisements the
hosts are instructed (by the routers) to use Router Solicitations to
request refreshed Router Advertisements. This mechanism is enabled
by configuring the router to include a new option in the Router
Advertisement in order to allow the network administrator to choose
host behavior based on whether periodic multicast are more efficient
on their link or not. The routers can also tell whether the hosts
are capable of the new behavior through a new flag in the Router
Solicitations.
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