As noted by David Miles in his post on September 23, 2009
(see http://ops.ietf.org/lists/radiusext/2009/msg00444.html)
, the Broadband Forum has a need for additional RADIUS attributes in order to
support their work on IPv6 access over PPP.
To address the request from the Broadband Forum, the RADEXT
WG held a session on IPv6 access during the RADEXT Virtual Interim meeting on
October 13, 2009. During this meeting, consensus was reached on next
steps with respect to the Broadband Forum request. The purpose of this
message is to confirm the consensus reached during the interim meeting on
those next steps.
As described in the minutes of the RADEXT Virtual Interim
meeting (see http://ops.ietf.org/lists/radiusext/2009/msg00531.html),
a suggestion was made by David Miles to focus WG efforts on completion
of work on IPv6 RADIUS attributes relevant to the work of the Broadband Forum
(primarily IPv6-Address but also potentially DNS-Server-Address).
In order to move forward, David volunteered to put together a document
defining additional RADIUS Attributes for use in Broadband Forum IPv6 PPP
usage scenarios. This document would include an overview of the
Broadband Forum IPv6 over PPP architecture, while incorporating relevant
attributes defined in a previously expired document, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lourdelet-radext-ipv6-dhcp.
Assuming that the WG consensus was confirmed, David promised to
prepare a document meeting this description for consideration.
The Consensus Call will last until Friday, December 4,
2009. If you favor the consensus of the virtual interim meeting as
described above (to focus on completing a document relating to the Broadband
Forum’s IPv6 over PPP scenarios), please reply to this email affirmatively,
indicating your support for David’s suggested next steps. If you
oppose the consensus of the Virtual Interim, please reply indicating your
opposition, as well as a potential alternate way forward.