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Re: [69ATTENDEES] DHCP

Jinemi,



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.


I think I can claim to be one of the "IPv6 designers".
My point of view on this is that there was never an opposition to DHCPv6 as described above. DHCPv6 was always part of the IPv6 plan because we understood that there were going to be environments where it would be important. For example large enterprises. There was not any organized effort to delay DHCPv6. As far as I understand the delay to move DHCPv6 forward was related to activities in the DHC w.g. I have never been very active in the DHC w.g.
Where there is a disagreement is should DHCPv6 be the only way to deliver certain types of information to hosts. For example the effort to try to standardize other mechanisms to deliver DNS recursive server information. But this was not about being against DHCPv6.
I don't understand how this has been turned into the IPv6 designers delaying DHCPv6 for 8 years. DHCPv6 is an important part of IPv6. 

Bob