Re: [dhcwg] Call for Adoption: draft-yeh-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-pool-opt-08

Support.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> Ted Lemon
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 11:32 PM
> To: dhcwg@ietf.org WG
> Subject: [dhcwg] Call for Adoption: draft-yeh-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-pool-opt-08
> 
> The authors have proposed that the working group adopt the prefix pool option
> draft as a working group item.   We have engaged in some correspondence
> with participants in the Routing Area, and while some helpful advice was given,
> no objections were raised to going forward with the work, and it's a DHCP
> protocol extension, so it makes sense for it to happen in the DHC working
> group.
> 
> The document proposes an extension to the DHCP protocol that allows the
> DHCP server to communicate prefixes to the provider edge router when doing
> prefix delegation, such that this router can advertise a route to an aggregate
> prefix, rather than to many individual prefixes, and so that this router does not
> have to perform ad-hoc prefix aggregation, which may produce less optimal
> results.
> 
> If you think this work should be adopted by the working group, please reply to
> this message saying so.   If you think this work should not be adopted by the
> working group, please reply to this message saying so.   We will evaluate
> consensus on September 7.
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