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
