Re: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-host-gen-id-02

[Sheng Jiang <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Yu,

Thanks your support and comments. Some replies in lines.

Regards,

Sheng

>-----Original Message-----
>From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf
>Of Fuyu (Eleven)
>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:55 PM
>To: Ted Lemon
>Cc: dhc WG
>Subject: Re: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-host-gen-id-02
>
>I am in favor of advancing this work.
>
>BTW, some comments below
>Section 4 part 1: This part describes that referring the IA_PD, a new IA_PA
>option is defined to insert into the DHCP message.
>And Section 5 the last sentence also describes that " However, the two
>options are different on the semantics and usage models."
>I think it need some more words to describe the difference between these
>two options in which scenario use IA_PD and in which scenario
>use the IA_PA in this part.

Prefix delegation and Prefix assignment are quite different: IA_PD is actually used among routers. This has been described in third paragraph of introduction session.

>Figure 1: I suggest to add message 4 (Request message) after the message 3
>to confirm the usage of the new address as the whole
>configuration process.

We have stated this is out of scope and added a reference to I-D.ietf-dhc-addr-registration, which defines the address confirmation/registration process.

>And I also think it is better to add the option name
>after the DHCP message in the figure 1.

Added

>Some typo: Section 1 the last sentence: supports-support
>         Section 1 paragraph 4 the last sentence: separats->separates

Echo.

Sheng

>Cheers
>Yu
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf
>Of Ted Lemon
>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 10:05 AM
>To: dhc WG
>Subject: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-host-gen-id-02
>
>The authors have requested a working group last call for this draft.   The
>draft provides a mechanism whereby the DHCP server can indicate to the
>DHCP client which prefix it should use for autoconfiguration, for instance for
>CGA address generation.   This draft has been hanging around for a while,
>and could definitely use more eyes on it.   Please take the time to review it;
>if you think it's a good idea, please indicate your support for advancing the
>draft.   If you think it's a bad idea, please indicate that you do not support
>advancing it.   If you have comments, they would be very much appreciated.
>
>We will determine consensus on August 27.
>
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