DHCPv4:
The WG met first to discuss DHCPv4 issues. Mike Carney (Sun) reported on the DHCP
futures panel. He presented the panel's charge and agenda. The panel will proceed
to consider and resolve the agenda items.
Charlie Perkins (Sun) reviewed recent changes to options 78 and 79 (for SLP); these
changes track changes to SLP. The I-D for these options will be submitted for WG
last call.
Ralph Droms (Bucknell) reported that Yakov Rekhter (cisco) requested that the DHCP-DNS
draft (version -08) be submitted for WG last call. Several members of the WG expressed
a need for more description of the mechanism through which a DHCP server updates
the A record for a DHCP client. The consensus of the WG was that more work is needed
on the case in which the DHCP server updates the client's A record. Kim Kinnear (American
Internet) will draft specific changes for the draft by mid-May.
Barr Hibbs (Pacific Bell) described his draft DHCP server MIB. There was sufficient
interest from the WG to continue working on the DHCP server MIB.
Peter Ford (Microsoft) described Microsoft's automatic address allocation for IPv4,
which is similar in concept to IPv6 link-local addresses. Microsoft is appying for
a defensive patent on this technology.
Ed Lewis (TIS) (for Olafur Gudmundsson (TIS)) presented a set of requirements for
DHCP authentication. Peter Ford volunteered to put together a panel to move forward
on authentication. Ford also proposed that an interim meeting be held to discuss
security.
Mike Henry (Intel) described his options for host systems. After much discussion
within the WG as to the need for these options (perhaps duplicating fucntion of vendor
identifier?), the WG agreed to push discussion off to the mailing list.
Richard Woundy (American Internet) described a "third-party query" protocol
that would allow DHCP relay agents and management tools to retrieve information from
DHCP servers.
Ted Lemon (ISC) responded to Thomas Narten's comments about the agent options draft.
Mike Patrick (Motorola) will submit a revised draft based on Narten's comments.
Kim Kinnear (American Internet) and Ralph Droms (Bucknell) led a discussion of the
safe failover and failover protocol drafts. There was sufficient interest in the
WG to continue pursuing this protocol. The WG expressed consensus in desiring that
the two drafts be merged into a single protocol specification, and all parts of that
protocol should be mandatory. The authors of the two drafts (spec., Kinnear and Arun
Kapur (Quadritek)) have agreed to merge their documents into a single draft.
DHCPv6:
In the DHCPv6 meeting, Charlie Perkins (Sun) reviewed changes to the v6 specs based
on input from the DC WG meeting and from responses to the WG last call. The consensus
of the WG was to submit the docs for IETF last call after the authors make a final
revision based on input from the WG at the meeting.