DHC WG These minutes were prepared from notes taken by Stuart Cheshire and Ted Lemon. Status report ------------- Ralph started the meeting with a WG status report. Ralph announced the publication of "DHCP Auto-configure Option (Option code 116) Deprecated" . It will go to WG last call after publication of as Proposed Standard. Matt Osman, ----------------------------------------------- Matt Osman presented the "DHCP Option for CableLabs Client Configuration". This option will redefine the option 177 currently in use by CableLabs. Q&A: Narten: Why not use vendor-specific options? Droms: Device can only have one vendor identifier; can't specify both vendor and "CableLabs-compatible" as vendor type. Droms: Two issues from chair's point of view: CableLabs wants to work with IETF to generate Internet Standard for function now deployed in option 177 (note that 177 is from the site-defined option code space); this draft proposes a somewhat different mechanism for sub-option code assignment. Narten: Does this option fundamentally change the way DHCP works? WG members should consider that issue when reading the draft. Woundy: CableLabs is not looking for IETF/DHCWG to rubberstamp this draft. CableLabs wants to go through IETF process and standardize the use of this option. The draft had not been read by the WG. Ralph will give the WG two weeks to read the draft (to begin 7/22), and then start WG last call. -------------------------------------- Ralph pointed out the publication of "The Authentication Suboption for the DHCP Relay Agent Option". This draft is a result of a discussion from the Minneapolis DHC WG meeting. There are open issues in the draft that will be discussed on the WG mailing list: hwo does a device that doesn't set 'giaddr' get the response from the DHCP server so the device cna remove its realy agent options; should the DHCP specification be extended to explicitly allow chaining of relay agents (as in DHCPv6)? ---------------------------------- "DHCP Lease Query" is in WG last call. There have been some comments posted during the last call. WG members were requested to further review the draft. ---------------------------------- "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server MIB" is in WG last call. There have been some comments posted during the last call. The authors will respond to the comments and work with Rich Woundy to revise the draft. Q&A: Narten: Deos this MIB have utility? Droms: Every time Barr Hibbs has asked, WG consensus has been to continue work on the MIB. Narten: Does anyone plaen to implement this MIB? Droms: Cisco does. Woundy: CableLabs wants to build embedded DHCP servers in modems. Some tables from this MIB would be useful. Waters: Version -07 seems to have been lost; will work with Hibbs to get versions straightened out. Scanner: The -06 version is quite ISC-specific. Droms: Please submit comments about that issue to the mailing list. , , ------------------------------------------------------------- The ADs have the token for review of "Encoding Long Options in DHCPv4" , "The Classless Static Route Option for DHCPv4" and "DHCP Domain Search Option" . ------------------------------ Ralph announced the status of the DHCPv6 spec: the -26 rev has been reviewed by some IESG members and the authors are preparing a new rev with responses to those reviews. In particular, the WG was alerted to changes in authentication and reconfiguration machinery. Ralph asked the WG to consider two issues: should the DHCPv6 authentication mechanism be identified as a separate authentication protocol wihtin the RFC3118 framework and should the "reconfiguration nonce" option be merged into the RFC 3118 framework. Some support was expressed for the latter suggestion. Ole Troan, ------------------------------------------------------------ Ole Troan gave an update presentation on "IPv6 Prefix Options for DHCPv6" option. Ralph mentioned that the IPv6 WG is working on a set of requirements and a selectin process for prefix delegation. There was some discussion about modifications to the PD option to solve larger scale problems - spec., make PD look more like Identity Association, with an ID and similar semantics. Authors will revise draft to accommodate tat suggestion. Other DHCPv6 option drafts -------------------------- Ralph asked if the WG had reviewed the other DHCPv6 option drafts: DNS Configuration options for DHCPv6 NIS Configuration Options for DHCPv6 Time Configuration Options for DHCPv6 DSTM Options for DHCP Client Preferred Prefix option for DHCPv6 Some discussion of the use of DHCP for service configuration ensued. Do we need a TTL field for service configuration options? Other server controls? What's the problem to be solved? How does T1/T2 not solve this problem today? What's the overlap with the service discovery protocol space? DHC WG Charter -------------- Ralph led a discussion of the WG charter. He did some real-time edits on the charter. He will wordsmith the edits and continue the discussion on the WG mailing list.