[DNA] Re: MUST Store Lifetime and Last Refresh time?(draft-pentland-dna-protocol-00.txt)

[Greg Daley <greg.daley@eng.monash.edu.au>]

My apologies, I forgot the section number:

That's in section 5.1.1

Greg Daley wrote:
> In the draft it states:
> 
>   "The list will be
>    referred to in this document as "DNAPrefixList".  For each prefix the
>    router MUST store the following information:
> 
>    1.  Prefix
> 
>    2.  Prefix length
> 
>    3.  Valid lifetime
> 
>    4.  Time last refreshed"
> 
> In my (existing) implementation I'm storing the expiry time
> of the prefix (which is calculated based on the valid lifetime
> at the RA reception time).
> 
> Is this insufficient?
> 
> I can understand having an indication of when data expires,
> but it seems overkill explicitly pointing out which data types
> have to be internally stored in the host unless there's
> further reasons behind it.
> 
> Would it be possible to make this descriptive and informational
> (being internal to the host) rather than prescriptive,
> using standards language?
> 
> Greg
>