At 03:54 AM 9/26/2003, Ralph Droms wrote:
I would agree with "reasonably fair" - in a little more detail, I heard a louder hum for DHCPv6 but not rough consensus. I think the minutes might provide a little more detail about my presentation (for those who don't go look up the presentation); perhaps "configuring devices for DNS using DHCPv6"? Finally, for those who weren't present, I think the minutes should note that DHCPv6 has been accepted as a Proposed Standard and is published as RFC 3315 (I believe this was the case as of the Vienna meeting), so we're comparing the use of a published standard against the development and future publication of a new protocol.
If I remember correctly you said that the RFC was in authors 48hours review at the time and wasn't quite published by the meeting. :-) It certainly is published now!
I am in agreement except for the point about the development of a new protocol. One of the current alternate proposals is for a new option for Router Advertisements so no new protocol would need to be developed in that case. The well known address approach doesn't require any protocol. I agree that both of these require specifications to be completed, approved, and published.
I have been wondering if it would make sense to define a new RA option designed to carry DHCPv6 options. That would make it possible to take advantage of DHCPv6 options that would make sense to use in RAs. I think this would be useful for information that would be common to all hosts on the link.
The biggest technical difference I see between the DHCPv6 (and DHCPv6 lite) and RA approaches is that DHCPv6 is a two packet exchange for each host vs. the RA approach where a RA message can be multicast to all hosts on the link.
According to the minutes, the first step was to be a continuation of the discussion on the mailing list. Perhaps the chairs could frame and kick off that discussion before we go to a design team?
Good point.
Bob
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