[dhcwg] dhc WG report on draft-pruss-dhcp-auth-dsl

[Ralph Droms <rdroms at cisco.com>]

Jari Arkko (our advising Internet AD) has asked the WG to provide a  
technical analysis of the extensions to DHCP proposed in draft-pruss- 
dhcp-auth-dsl.  At the WG meeting in Dublin, Jari told us that he is  
looking for an analysis of the impact of the authentication extensions  
on the DHCP architecture.  What is the effect of the increased DHCP  
message sizes on clients, servers and relay agents?  What is the  
impact on other DHCP security mechanisms?  How is backward  
compatibility with already deployed DHCP clients, servers and relay  
agents accommodated?  How will the authentication extensions interact  
with relay agent options?  What Jari is explicitly *not* looking for  
is an analysis of whether draft-pruss-dhcp-auth-dsl is applicable for  
the use case.

We discussed the mechanics of preparing a report; noting that the WG  
has discussed these details on the WG mailing list during two WG  
meetings and on the mailing list, we will identify an ad hoc team that  
will review the WG discussions and write the technical analysis Jari  
has requested.  When the analysis is complete, it will be forwarded to  
Jari and a copy posted to the WG mailing list.

JohnB has agreed to head up the ad hoc team.  He'll announce the team  
membership and timeline for preparing the report following this e-mail.

I apologize for the confusion in the draft WG minutes about this  
process for responding to Jari's request.  My memory was incorrect  
about whether the plan had been announced during the WG meeting in  
Dublin; the minutes will be corrected before submission for publication.

- Ralph

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