[dhcwg] WGLC on draft-ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6-21 - summary

[Tomek Mrugalski <[e-mail]>]

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