Re: [dhcwg] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-mglt-homenet-naming-architecture-dhc-options-00.txt

[Sten Carlsen <[e-mail]>]

On 21/10/13 13.21, Daniel Migault wrote:
>
> Actually that is the reverse. The DHCP options  makes possible for a
> user to define its naming configuration for the homenet and push it to
> any CPE that is plugged. This avoids reconfiguration when changing CPE
> or when the CPE settups are erased.
> Although specific configuration may concern a fraction of end users,
> we believe the large portion of end users, prefers a default naming
> settings that may be proposed by the DHCP.
Good, I did read it and was not sure which way names were pushed - so at
least it was not clear to me.
>  
>
>     The way I see this, is that either I know what I want and make my
>     own DNS-entries or I don't care, in which case there is no meaning
>     in doing naming for people, specially as these namings will likely
>     not be meaningful to people.
>
> Well, most of our end users do not really care about configuring DNS
> architectures for their home network. At most they want it to work on
> a specific domain name "example.com <http://example.com>" so they can
> reach there service like "myvideo.example.com
> <http://myvideo.example.com>"  from outside the homenet. This latest
> name is meaningful for them, they are interested in the naming service
> to work properly. However,  they are not interested in deep
> understanding of the naming architecture and most probably not in how
> to perform key roll over. It looks these end users are just in between
> your two alternatives.
I agree very much, this I believe is what most people want. I personally
want to be able to control what can reach into my home and what in the
home can reach outside, so far we are few with that wish.

After some time, privacy concerns may drive people to want more control
over what is accessible on their network from the outside and control of
naming is one step (if it has no name, less chance someone wants to talk
to it). Access control has nothing else to do with DHCP, for that you
must acquire your own firewall.
>
> Note also that you can also just ignore the DHCP Options.
I assume most will do that, unless some setup-wizard will help.
>
>

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Sten Carlsen

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