FWIW, I sent a note to Suresh on the topic. Namely:
FWIW, this is the text we currently have about it:
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5.3. Honor Small PIO Valid Lifetimes
The entire item "e)" (pp. 19-20) from Section 5.5.3 of [RFC4862] is
replaced with the following text:
e) If the advertised prefix is equal to the prefix of an address
configured by stateless autoconfiguration in the list, the valid
lifetime and the preferred lifetime of the address should be
updated by processing the Valid Lifetime and the Preferred
Lifetime (respectively) in the received advertisement.
RATIONALE:
This change allows hosts to react to the signal provided by a
router that has positive knowledge that a prefix has become
invalid.
The behavior described in [RFC4862] had been incorporated
during the revision of the original IPv6 Stateless Address
Autoconfiguration specification ([RFC1971]). At the time, the
IPNG working group decided to mitigate the attack vector
represented by Prefix Information Options with very short
lifetimes, on the premise that these packets represented a
bigger risk than other ND-based attack vectors [IPNG-minutes].
While reconsidering the trade-offs represented by such
decision, we conclude that the drawbacks of the aforementioned
mitigation outweigh the possible benefits.
In scenarios where RA-based attacks are of concern, proper
mitigations such as RA-Guard [RFC6105] [RFC7113] or SEND
[RFC3971] should be implemented.
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Please let us know if the above is fine. If not, how about replacing this:
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We note that Neighbor Discovery implies that Router
Advertisement messages be trusted by SLAAC hosts [RFC3756], and
hence an attacker has a plethora of different vectors for
performing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, such as forging
RDNSS options, RIOs with more specific routes, etc. Thus,
while reconsidering the trade-offs represented by the current
behavior specified in [RFC4862], we conclude that the
drawbacks outweigh the possible benefits.
FWIW, I sent a note to Suresh on the topic. Namely:
FWIW, this is the text we currently have about it: ---- cut here ----
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Thanks!