Re: [dhcwg] WGLC on draft-ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6-21

Hi,

RFC7513 seems to suggest DHCP snooping, i.e., some L2 device on the link from
the DHCP server or relay to the client examines the contents of DHCP messages.
Unfortunately, sedhcpv6 mandates encryption making snooping impossible.

Does it mean that Secure DHCPv6 will be incompatible with SAVI?

Thanks - Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcwg [mailto:dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Tomek Mrugalski
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 12:07 PM
> To: dhcwg <dhcwg@ietf.org>
> Cc: draft-ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6 authors <draft-ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6@ietf.org>
> Subject: [dhcwg] WGLC on draft-ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6-21 - summary
> 
> It took a little bit more than planned, but the extra time gave us a
> couple more comments.
> 
> We did receive a number of in depth reviews with technical comments. In
> general, several people praised the significantly improved quality and
> clarity of the document. Nobody said that is opposed to this work. So
> from that perspective this last call is a success.
> 
> However, both chair and at least one co-author feel that an important
> concern has not been addressed yet. There currently are no known
> implementations or prototypes of this draft. For a typical DHCP draft
> that adds an option or two that would probably be fine, but for this
> particular draft it is not. For two reasons: First, we feel that this is
> an essential piece of the whole DHCPv6 ecosystem and as such require
> much more scrutiny then an average draft. Second, security is a complex
> matter and any unclear aspects would gravely damage the
> interoperability. Jinmei had put it well: "I suspect the current spec
> still has some points that are critically unclear, which you would
> immediately notice once you tried to implement it."
> 
> Given that, we declare that more effort is needed before this work is
> deemed ready for IESG. At the same time, chairs would like to strongly
> applaud authors' efforts to improve this work. This version is
> significantly better than its predecessors. Thank you for your hard
> work. You are doing excellent work. Please continue.
> 
> Also, to address the concern of missing implementations, chairs would
> like to announce a DHCP hackathon in Prague. Details are TBD, but the
> primary goal will be to have at least two independent implementations of
> that draft. The hackathon will take place the weekend before IETF
> meeting (that's July 15-16). A separate announcement will be sent soon.
> 
> That is well over 3 months away. Authors and supporters of this work,
> please seriously consider dedicating some of your time implementing
> prototypes and attending the hackathon, if you can. If you can't we will
> organize some means for participating remotely.
> 
> Thank you to the authors and to everyone who commented.
> 
> Bernie & Tomek
> 
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Re: [dhcwg] WGLC on draft-ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6-21 - summary