Re: [dhcwg] DHCP hackathon in Prague?

I am not sure that I could contribute, but I am very interested in secure DHCPv6.

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

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> From: dhcwg [mailto:dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Tomek Mrugalski
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 2:06 PM
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> Subject: [dhcwg] DHCP hackathon in Prague?
> 
> IETF is about rough consensus and running code. We had a lot of the
> consensus part lately, how about a bit of running code for a change? ;)
> 
> Possible DHCP hackathon in Prague was mentioned briefly during Dallas
> meeting. I'd like to follow up on the idea. I'm not sure if you recall,
> but there was a hackathon in Dallas. Folks who participated found it
> very useful and had good results (outcome of the last one:
> https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/92/slides/slides-92-iesg-opsplenary-3.pdf,
> more details
> https://www.ietf.org/registration/MeetingWiki/wiki/ietfhackathon)
> 
> I'd love to hear your opinion on this. The hackathon would likely take
> two days (Saturday and Sunday preceding IETF). Interested people would
> meet, decide on common unresolved software issues, exchange ideas, hack
> the code and maybe even do a bit of interop testing!
> 
> For now, we don't have any specific topics agreed on, but the ones
> mentioned so far are:
> 
> - stateful issues - the draft got IESG approval recently. It would be
> good to check what sort of tweaking is required for existing
> implementations.
> - secure dhcpv6 - that's a challenging one. We could check whether there
> are existing implementations that could support this already. If not, we
> could develop a plan to extend existing code base and start writing code.
> - privacy - there's a lot of going on in the DHCP privacy area. We could
> work on existing implementations or even start working on a privacy
> oriented client from scratch. I know of at least one DHCP library that
> would make this feasible in 2 days.
> 
> Other areas could be worked on, too. For example shared v4 allocation,
> dhcpv6 load balancing, stable privacy addresses or maybe YANG modules
> for dhcp? Feel free to propose your own topics.
> 
> In my opinion, it would make sense to go ahead with the hackathon if
> there is enough people willing to work on specific topics. So the
> questions are:
> 
> 1. are you willing to participate in the DHCP hackathon, i.e. travel to
> Prague 2 days earlier and spend your time with fellow DHCP geeks hacking
> the code?
> 2. what topics are of particular interest for you?
> 3. do you have your own implementation or a patch for existing one? If
> not, that's ok, there's plenty of open source projects that could
> benefit from your time and skills.
> 
> Question 3 is completely optional. If you don't want to reveal your
> secret plans, that's perfectly ok. I'm merely asking to gauge which
> areas are likely to have the biggest code base, so perhaps we could plan
> some sort of interop testing.
> 
> If there's enough interest, Bernie and I will submit this proposal to
> whoever is in charge of the hackathon planning. We'll probably organize
> a wiki somewhere and move the detailed discussion off the dhc list.
> (There was a separate list for '92 hackathon.)
> 
> Bernie & Tomek
> 
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