Subject: Conclusion - draft-ietf-6man-resilient-rs-03

From: Ole Troan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:21:21 +0200

The chairs have reviewed the discussions of the resilient-rs draft. The main point of contention is if the draft should include text describing periodic sending of router solicitations also after the initial Router Solicitation window. This would allow support for misconfigured links, or even links that don’t support or have disabled periodic RAs.

Our conclusion is that there is consensus on the solution to the initial Router Solicitation problem, but not on the sending of periodic RS after the initial window. The initial RS problem is important enough that we do want to publish that document now, and then continue to work on a wider solution in a separate document.  We are also not convinced it is appropriate to try to change the protocol to fix configuration errors.  This would be a very open ended project.

We therefore ask the authors to update the document accordingly.
- rewrite the introduction section, removing bullet 1b and 1c.
- remove the “Hosts MAY continue retransmitting the RSs”

As soon as the authors have posted a new revision we will advance the document to the IESG.

Best regards,
Bob and Ole