The quoted text from the liaison statement is not clear on what they would like to do. Do they need a user authentication mechanism for DHCP? Or do they need a user authentication mechanism for network access control?
Yoshihiro Ohba On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 11:22:15PM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote: > > We talked about the DSL requirements earlier on this list. Now > they have sent us a liaison statement regarding what they would > like to do: > > "At this time, we would like to make the IETF aware that during > our most recent DSL Forum quarterly meeting, the Architecture > and Transport Working Group agreed to seriously consider adopting > a mechanism such as that proposed in draft-pruss-dhcp-auth-dsl-01.txt > or draft-zhao-dhc-user-authentication-02. We understand that the authors > of these specifications intend to produce a combined document soon. > The DSL Forum formally requests that the IETF adopt this as a work > item, and would appreciate being advised of progress as soon as possible. > > Our next quarterly meeting is December 10-13, in Lisbon, Portugal." > > > How do we feel about this? Is this a good idea, considering the DSL > architecture? How will it affect DHCP the protocol? How would > you go about making DHCP extensions so that they work best > for all possible environments and not just DSL? Is anyone > already working on the combined draft promised above? Are > there any other choices that we should recommend instead? > > I would like to hold the discussion on this in this list until > we've determined that the DHCP protocol is the right tool > for the job. If it is, we can recharter DHC WG again to add > the actual development work there. (DHC is right now > being rechartered but that recharting is mostly a cleanup > and not the addition of functionality to do this.) > > Jari > > > > _______________________________________________ > Int-area mailing list > [email protected] > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area > _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
