> On Mar 25, 2015, at 2:17 PM, STARK, BARBARA H <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Yup.   Are you aware of similar issues with changing the IAID?   If the ISP 
>> has a
>> limit to how many prefixes can be assigned on a particular customer port,
>> that could cause issues, but if it's a supported feature as it would be in
>> Mikael's case, I think it should be OK.   Do you know the details of what was
>> causing the issue?
> 
> I don't remember the details. I looked at BBF TR-124, to see if there was 
> something similar there, and there wasn't. Then I looked at eRouter specs, 
> and did see that they are specifically re-iterating the requirement for 
> persistence. So maybe it came from the cable companies. Which could explain 
> why my memory of details is so fuzzy.

Yes, it’s very probably coming from the cable side. The first generations of 
cable modems and eRouters firmware sometimes used non-persistent DUID-LLTs 
changing at each reboot. We had also seen it from early “retail” CPEs.  It was 
annoying enough that the persistence requirement was reiterated in some 
documents.

> The TR-124 requirements are used by DSL providers for the CE routers they 
> procure/provide, and aren't expected to apply to "retail" CE routers. The 
> fact that this IAID requirement didn't make it into RFC 7084 leads me to 
> believe that the behavior of retail CE routers wrt IAID is a "don't care”.

Thanks for checking. Changing the IAID might indeed be a good way to implement 
the “reset privacy” button. Not sure if this should be added to any 
specifications and which ones. Is this just a regional regulatory requirement? 
Looks like there isn’t any action for the IETF to take here. 

JF



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