Re: [dhcwg] WGLC on draft-ietf-dhc-rfc3315bis-05 - respond by August 8th

[Marcin Siodelski <[e-mail]>]

On 20.07.2016 08:33, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Tomek Mrugalski
> <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>     This call initiates the working group last call
>     on draft-ietf-dhc-rfc3315bis-05 [1].
>
>
> rfc3315bis is written to assume that a client requesting a prefix via
> DHCPv6 prefix delegation is a router. The term "requesting router" is
> used throughout. But it is useful to delegate prefixes to hosts, as well.
>
> For example, draft-templin-aerolink and draft-herbert-nvo3-ila and
> draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host all mention assigning a /64
> prefix to a host. But because RFC3315 still talks about "requesting
> router", when we wrote draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability (now in
> AUTH48) we had to say:
>
>       While [RFC3633] assumes that the DHCPv6 client is a router, DHCPv6
>       PD itself does not require that the client forward IPv6 packets
>       not addressed to itself, and thus does not require that the client
>       be an IPv6 router as defined in [RFC2460].  Also, in many cases
>       (such as tethering, or hosting virtual machines), hosts are
>       already forwarding IPv6 packets and thus operating as IPv6 routers
>       as defined in [RFC2460].
>
> In 3315bis, can we use another term instead of "requesting router"?
> "Client"? "Requesting node"?
>

After merging RFC3633 into the RFC3315, many of the sections (in
particular those talking about the messages transmission and reception)
include common text for processing IA_NAs and IA_PDs and they use the
term "Client" (as it used to be in original RFC3315) for an entity that
can request addresses and prefixes. Hence, I'd suggest we continue using
the term "Client" where possible, which probably also means replacing
some of 72 occurrences of "delegating router". Perhaps we should also
update section "5.3.  DHCP for Prefix Delegation" to say that prefix
delegation is a mechanism that can be used to provide prefixes to
routers but also hosts.

Marcin