Re: [69ATTENDEES] DHCP

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>]

At Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:11:54 +0200,
Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org> 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 first DHCPv6 draft was published in February 1995, and the
> resistance kept it from being published for 8 years. There were *28*
> drafts before it was finally moved to RFC status!
> 
> http://www3.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-00

This is probably an off-topic in this thread (or perhaps for this list
in the first place), but just out of curiosity...was the "opposition"
of the IPv6 designers the main reason that it took 8 years to complete
the DHCPv6 spec?  I didn't even know there was an opposition from the
"IPv6 designers" to defining the DHCPv6 protocol.  I recall there was
a discussion about whether to mandate implementing DHCPv6 on an IPv6
host (and as a result RFC4294 uses a MAY in section 4.5.5), but I
don't remember an argument that resisted defining the protocol.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp