Re: [dhcwg] FW: New Version Notification for draft-porfiri-dhc-dhcpv4-l2ra-fronthaul-00.txt

Hi Claudio,

Would you like some time to present at the IETF meeting?

~Tim

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 4:50 AM Claudio Porfiri <claudio.porfiri=
40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> Hi DHC WG,
> Jari, Mirja and I have just prepared a draft where it's shown how a new
> Use Case exists for a L2 Relay Agent for DHCP in IPv4.
> We would like to propose the argument and collect comments on that with
> the objective to converge towards a solution.
> The argument is important in the Radio Access Network in the scope of the
> current and future mobile networks and OpenRAN.
>
> All opinions are welcome.
> Claudio Porfiri
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: internet-drafts@ietf.org <internet-drafts@ietf.org>
> Sent: Monday, 23 October 2023 22:21
> To: Claudio Porfiri <claudio.porfiri@ericsson.com>; Jari Arkko <
> jari.arkko@ericsson.com>
> Subject: New Version Notification for
> draft-porfiri-dhc-dhcpv4-l2ra-fronthaul-00.txt
>
> A new version of Internet-Draft
> draft-porfiri-dhc-dhcpv4-l2ra-fronthaul-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Jari Arkko and posted to the
> IETF repository.
>
> Name:     draft-porfiri-dhc-dhcpv4-l2ra-fronthaul
> Revision: 00
> Title:    Layer 2 Relay Agents in Cellular Fronthaul Networks
> Date:     2023-10-23
> Group:    Individual Submission
> Pages:    10
> URL:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-porfiri-dhc-dhcpv4-l2ra-fronthaul-00.txt
> Status:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-porfiri-dhc-dhcpv4-l2ra-fronthaul/
> HTMLized:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-porfiri-dhc-dhcpv4-l2ra-fronthaul
>
>
> Abstract:
>
>    The fronthaul portion of a cellular network is the part of the
>    network that connects centralized radio controllers and the
>    distributed radio units at the edge of the cellular network.  A
>    switched fronthaul network is one where the connectivity is provided
>    through one or more stages of switches.
>
>    When performing address assignment and configuration tasks in such
>    networks, knowledge of how the different devices are connected is
>    beneficial.  Networks that employ IPv6 can use DHCPv6 to support
>    Relay Agents.  However, those networks that continue to be based on
>    IPv4 have no easy way to support this, as the DHCPv4 support for
>    relays is limited.
>
>    This document explores how to provide Relay Agent functionality in
>    IPv4-based switched fronthaul networks.
>
>
>
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