As a co-author of a couple of previous DNS discovery IDs, I would have to agree that as postulated, the current DNS discovery work has pretty much been OBE. (overtaken by events) There have been two distinct BOFs on this idea in the last five years so I don't think another BOF will be very productive.
% Thomas, % % [co-Author of the DNS discovery draft hat on] % % I agree with your assessment that this proposal % has missed its window of opportunity. % We could probably do a very interesting post-mortem analysis % why in the context of the problem-statement list, but this is not % the topic for today's discussion. % % Now that DHCPv6 is eventually going to be published and implemented, % the pressure for an alternate solution specifically for DNS is much % lower % and I would agree we should now step back and look % at the more general problem from a fresh start. % % There are actually two different topics that could be discussed % in a bof: % % - is DHCP enough for general parameter configuration or is % there a significant enough problem space where its not % applicable/desirable? For example, for address configuration, % we have DHCP and stateless autoconf. Does this dichotomy % between server-helped and self-derived configuration applies to % other services? % % - What does it mean to use 'well known voluntary ambiguous' addresses % for service configuration? % This is a discussion I had with Steve Deering before he went % on sabbatical. This is the equivalent of the '911' service: % wherever you are, you dial 911 and you are connected to the emergency % service. Can we use this paradigm for services that are % supposed to be somehow 'universal'? % For example, you want a NTP server, try '777::1', you want a DNS % server, % try '411::1',... Charge to the network to make sure the 'call' % connects % to the right place. The devil is, of course, in this last sentence. % % % - Alain. % % -------------------------------------------------------------------- % IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List % IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng % FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng % Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] % -------------------------------------------------------------------- % -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
