Subject: RE: Oppose: LL24 Weaken the PRN generated address requirement from MUST to MAY

From: Stuart Cheshire <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:49:38 -0800

>Stuart, I think you are right in that the definition of PRN is
>vague enough to include any algorithm. A sentence to reflect
>that in the draft would be appropriate, what do you think?

I think that the current text in draft-07 is correct and adequate.

The important properly is spelled out very clearly:

   The pseudo-random number generation algorithm MUST be chosen so that
   different hosts do not generate the same sequence of numbers.

Stuart Cheshire <[email-masked]>
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