Automatically connecting to stub networks...

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

I mentioned prior to IETF 107 that I wanted to start a conversation about this problem, but didn’t have time to write a draft.  I’ve written one, which I think describes my view of the problem pretty well; I’d like to know if what I’ve written here makes sense to others.  This is semi-related to the Homenet problem, but doesn’t try to do as much, which makes the problem a bit more tractable, and addresses at least one fairly important use case.

A new version of I-D, draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Ted Lemon and posted to the
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Name:		draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps
Revision:	00
Title:		Self-configuring Stub Networks: Problem Statement
Document date:	2020-07-08
Group:		Individual Submission
Pages:		15
URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps-00.txt <https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps-00.txt>
Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps/ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps/>
Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps-00 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps-00>
Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-lemon-stub-networks-ps>


Abstract:
  IETF currently provides protocols for automatically connecting single
  hosts to existing network infrastructure.  This document describes a
  related problem: the problem of connecting a stub network (a
  collection of hosts behind a router) automatically to existing
  network infrastructure in the same manner.




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