Re: [69ATTENDEES] DHCP

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:25:46PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> >Because of this, they resisted
> >DHCPv6, and they continue to oppose DHCPv6.
> 
> Hm, how exactly did the IPv6 designers in ~ 1995 resist DHCPv6 that  
> wasn't published until 2003?

The publication of DHCPv6 was a long road, which started in 1995:

http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-00.txt
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6
February 1995

The Dec 1994 IETF DHC meeting has apparently the first mention of DHCP 
requirement for IPv6:

ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-online-proceedings/94dec/area.and.wg.reports/int/dhc/dhc-minutes-94dec.txt
(see under IPv6 Issues)

"Regardless of how addresses are managed, IPv6 will need some other
mechanism(s) to obtain other configuration parameters.  Some members of
the IPv6 design team claim there will be no other parameters."

But to call this opposition on that evidence would be a bit strong.

-- 
Tim