Technical Summary
Frequent Router Advertisement messages can severely impact host
power consumption. This document recommends operational practices
to avoid such impact.
Working Group Summary
The concept was originally proposed for IETF 93, and quickly
finalized. The concept is itself pretty simple; every message
sent or received by a wireless interface consumes power. Various
measurements suggest that IPv6 networks can be unnecessarily
chatty, and specifically WiFi and mobile wireless such as LTE
suffer from that. This note makes pactical suggestions based on
operational experience regarding configuration of such.
Document Quality
This is not a protocol. Multiple respondents have indicated that
it gives useful operational guidance. No negative feedback was
given.
Personnel
Fred Baker is the Document Shepherd.
Joel Jaeggli is the AD.