Re: [homenet] Working Group draft adoptions

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Dear chairs,

I support the adoption of draft-pfister-homenet-prefix-assignment and draft-mglt-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation.

FWIW, below some comments about these two documents:
(1)
PA draft could be enhanced if it considers a mix model (in addition of the completely distributed model) that would let the border router(s) enforce some (centralized) policies (including authenticating and authorizing which nodes are allowed to be grafted in network) and also control which prefixes to be assigned to neighbors. My understanding is that the length of the pool to be delegated to upstream nodes may not be known in advance (because it depends on the radius of that network branch) in the distributed model. Having a mode that allows for a control of the addressing resources would be efficient compared to a completely distributed model that may lead to a waste of resources. The impact of the distributed model on the stability of the network should also be further assessed in the draft.

A side effect of the mix model would be the ability of that border router(s) to discover the topology of the home network (and other information). Discovered information can be used to drive policies that would be required by an administrator or user guidelines (e.g., limit the connectivity of a given node, trigger forwarding decision to avoid the traffic be passed through a given node, etc.).

(2)
dns outsourcing is interesting for managed CPEs in particular. Offloading the CPE is a not only a valid technical argument but, more important, it allows network operators to do some business (similar to offloading a SIP Proxy service to the network side). I do think this document should be merged with the dhc options.

Cheers,
Med

De : homenet [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Ray Bellis
Envoyé : mercredi 3 septembre 2014 15:38
À : [e-mail] Group
Objet : [homenet] Working Group draft adoptions

This email commences a two week period for comments relating to the adoption of the following drafts by the HOMENET Working Group, as promised during our WG session in Toronto:

  draft-pfister-homenet-prefix-assignment<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-pfister-homenet-prefix-assignment/>
  draft-mglt-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mglt-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation/>
  draft-mglt-homenet-naming-architecture-dhc-options<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mglt-homenet-naming-architecture-dhc-options/>

If you have any comments please reply to this message, but please do not mix up comments on the PA draft and the two Naming drafts in a single reply.

thanks,

Ray and Mark