Re: [dhcwg] Process: draft-ietf-dec-route-option and draft-droms-dhc-dhcpv6-default-router

[Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU>]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 07:18:35PM +0200, Wojciech Dec (wdec) wrote:
> I do not see why DHC work on these should not proceed.
...
> As such I see it both within the DHC WG community's responsibility and
> interest to continue to define standards that support deployment of such
> preferences and allow the choice to be made by the eventual adopters who
> are the de-facto experts of their domain. The confusion regarding the
> role of RAs vs DHCP, and the present day inconsistency of
> implementations is actually one point that already makes IPv6 deployment
> harder than it needed be. Time to straighten this out (a point that goes
> beyond these two drafts).

+1

> Now, given that the DHC WG is by all accounts the community with the DHC
> WG experts it's only reasonable for it to continue to define DHCP
> options and functionality that are of interest, while engaging in
> discussions with other WGs who may share some of interest or be working
> on alternatives if say info model reuse is something of common interest.
> It's likely to be futile to expect another WG to gather the right mix of
> dhcp and subject-whatever matter experts to do that work; if they're
> interested, they will come to dhc.

Agreed.