Re: Last Call: NIS Configuration Options for DHCPv6 to Proposed Standard

[Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>]

I doubt that it's appropriate to bless this as standards-track.
Informational would be okay.

NIS is kind of a mess.  it is neither secure nor robust.  there are security
problems related to using it to distribute password information, and it
causes reliability problems for apps and hosts if not carefully set up and
maintained.

also, abliity to configure NIS seems fairly useless without also having the
ability to configure which NIS services (maps)  are used and which are
ignored, and the relationship of NIS services to other ways of getting the
same information. (e.g. the /etc/nsswitch.conf file or whatever it is on other
systems)  of course that facility is not specific to NIS, and so it doesn't
belong in this document, but it seems like it would be an essential component
of anything that was used to configure NIS.  (or did I miss the DHCPv6 option
that does this?)

shouldn't there be at least informative references for NIS and NIS+?

also unspecified: what's the interaction between this and the NIS binding 
discovery protocol?  (forget what its called)  has the use of that protocol
over IPv6 ever been defined?