[dhcwg] Some questions regarding draft-bvtm-dhc-mac-assign-00

[Tomek Mrugalski <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Thanks to Bernie for pushing forward, editing and uploading the draft.

This is an initial proposal for a new mechanism in DHCPv6. It looks a
bit odd at first (why would a device request MAC address if it's able to
transmit DHCPv6 packets already), but there are at least two scenarios
where this is justified.

I'd like to encourage people to read the draft. It short - 4 pages of
the actual proposal text (or 7 if you count option format sections).

There are couple questions we'd like to hear your comments on:

1. Does it make sense to reuse DHCPv6 mechanisms to solve this problem?
Several current and former IESG members think so, but we'd like to hear
your opinion on this.

2. Would such a topic be interesting to the WG?

3. Do we want to allow or even mandate Reconfigure here? One of the
objections raised to DHCPv6 protocol in general was that it's not always
possible to change the configuration at moment's notice.

4. We haven't really figured out whether it would be better to have
always one LLADDR per IA_LL or one or more? Arguments can be made both
ways. We're eager to hear what's the preference here.

On a related note, we organized the repo for this work here:
https://github.com/dhcwg/dhcp-mac. Feel free to comment on existing
issues or open new ones. Keep the discussion on dhcwg list, though.

Thanks,

Bernie & Tomek