RE: [Geopriv] Confirmation of GEOPRIV IETF 68 Working Group Hums

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker at verisign.com>]

But how does my application access it?

DHCP is not something that an application layer program should be allowed to perform. It is a security issue. For good reason performing DHCP operations requires privileges beyond mere network connectivity on Windows.

That is why configuring application programs from DHCP never caught on.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Schnizlein [mailto:jschnizl at cisco.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 6:41 PM
> To: David W. Hankins
> Cc: GEOPRIV WG; ietf at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [Geopriv] Confirmation of GEOPRIV IETF 68 
> Working Group Hums
> 
> The reason that DHCP is appropriate for information about the 
> location of the host is that the scope of DHCP administration 
> usually does match the local network to which the host is 
> attached.  Location is local information.
> 
> John
> 
> On Apr 20, 2007, at 3:38 PM, David W. Hankins wrote:
> 
> > The point is that the ISO L(x) is not what one considers 
> when judging 
> > wether or not a certain configuration value "would make a good band 
> > name.  I mean DHCP option."
> >
> > What we (strive to) consider instead is the administrative scope of 
> > the configuration information, and wether it matches common and 
> > practical use of DHCP.
> 
> 
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 7:47 PM, David W. Hankins wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:38:40PM -0700, Hallam-Baker, 
> Phillip wrote:
> >> DHCP is a layer 3 technology that talks directly to layer 2.
> >
> > DHCP is a technology that dynamically configures hosts.
> >
> > If a host has a configuration knob that might reasonably 
> and properly 
> > be set by the systems administrator or the network you are 
> presently 
> > attached to, then it is reasonable and proper to configure it via 
> > DHCP.
> 
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