Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:38:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Bill Manning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Ok, I goofed. By what process are addresses marked as "deprecated
| for however long is possible to allow existing connections
| to continue to work, then finally, remove support for them
| altogether"?
Currently this seems to be human intervention - ie: some person decides
how long the transition period needs to be (and I know we have people on
this list you believe the value should normally be "never less than several
months" and others who would like "24 hours and this address is dead").
There's nothing different here than exists in IPv4 address transitions
really - except better automated methods for getting the changes
distributed around the local net, and a better formalism for allowing
hosts to understand what is the current status of any particular address.
The question that led to this little side discussion was related to the
precise semantics of one of those states.
On that question - would there be any support for adding some kind of
deprecated timer (maybe distributed in RAs) - to allow a switch over
point between when incoming connections to a deprecated address are
still accepted, and when they start being reset ?
kre
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