>I believe that Mark is right in saying that Microsoft originated the
>extensions to bootp and implemented leases in their clients and servers
>to cope when IP addresses first started to be in short supply - hence
>the "D" for "Dynamic". Fortunately, the protocol was reasonably well
>designed, backwards compatible with bootp and adopted as an RFC - unlike
>other "standards" (e.g. SMB) which MS feel free to break at will.
Let's have a look at the RFCs that define DHCP shall we?
RFC2131:
8. Author's Address
Ralph Droms
Computer Science Department
323 Dana Engineering
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
RFC2132:
14. Authors' Addresses
Steve Alexander
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
2011 N. Shoreline Boulevard
Mailstop 510
Mountain View, CA 94043-1389
Ralph Droms
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
M$ may have been in the DHC WG, but so were heaps of other parties.
The D was designed into DHCP right from the start. Leases are implied in
the protocol. It's usually not the shortage of IP addresses that is the
driving factor (for a private subnet you could take 10.0.0.0/8), but the
automated address management.
The commendable thing that M$ did was to adopt DHCP instead of giving us
winbootp or something like that.
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