Re: [dhcwg] Internet-Drafts@ietf.org: I-D ACTION:draft-shen-dhc-block-alloc-01.txt

My impression is that this document covers functionality similar the v4 prefix delegation already proposed in draft-ietf-dhc-subnet-alloc-00.txt. 

The biggest advantages of the subnet-alloc draft I can see are these:
1) Specifies the protocol features rather than the allocation behavior,
2) Avoids implications of the size of the allocated subnets,
3) Avoids unnecessary entanglements of DHCP with edge router functionality.
4) Avoids the unnecessary new component of "proxy DHCP server"

John

At 12:28 PM 1/24/2004, Naiming Shen wrote:

>This draft has been posted, please review and comment. The authors
>would like this draft to be adopted as a DHC working-group document.
>...
>        
>A new DHCP address allocation mechanism called Micro-blocking
>   is proposed in this document. It is used for DHCP proxy servers or
>   routers working with DHCP servers to maximize the IP address
>   allocation efficiency while improve dynamic routing scalability
>   in provider's networks. A DHCP sub-option within the relay agent
>   information option 82 is defined in this document. This simple
>   DHCP extension can be applied as a simple IP address-pool management
>   among multiple IP devices.
>
>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shen-dhc-block-alloc-01.txt

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