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Improving the Robustness of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (SLAAC) to Flash Renumbering Events
draft-ietf-6man-slaac-renum-04

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This is an older version of an Internet-Draft whose latest revision state is "Expired".
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Authors Fernando Gont , Jan Zorz , Richard Patterson
Last updated 2023-02-13 (Latest revision 2022-08-12)
Replaces draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum
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Abstract

In renumbering scenarios where an IPv6 prefix suddenly becomes invalid, hosts on the local network will continue using stale prefixes for an unacceptably long period of time, thus resulting in connectivity problems. This document improves the reaction of IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration to such renumbering scenarios.

Authors

Fernando Gont
Jan Zorz
Richard Patterson

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