Re: [dhcwg] Call for Adoption: draft-yeh-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-pool-opt-08

[Ole Trøan <[e-mail]>]

> The authors have proposed that the working group adopt the prefix pool option draft as a working group item.   We have engaged in some correspondence with participants in the Routing Area, and while some helpful advice was given, no objections were raised to going forward with the work, and it's a DHCP protocol extension, so it makes sense for it to happen in the DHC working group.
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> The document proposes an extension to the DHCP protocol that allows the DHCP server to communicate prefixes to the provider edge router when doing prefix delegation, such that this router can advertise a route to an aggregate prefix, rather than to many individual prefixes, and so that this router does not have to perform ad-hoc prefix aggregation, which may produce less optimal results.
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> If you think this work should be adopted by the working group, please reply to this message saying so.   If you think this work should not be adopted by the working group, please reply to this message saying so.   We will evaluate consensus on September 7.

I'm generally uncomfortable with piggybacking on the client initiated protocol, to manage a DHCPv6 relay sitting in the middle of the conversation.

I do not think it is a good idea to require DHCPv6 relays to rewrite DHCPv6 client messages. does this work with DHCPv6 authentication?

do we want to make DHCP a general management protocol of the DR/first-hop router?

I am against adopting this document as a working group document.

cheers,
Ole