Dynamic Host Configuration (dhc) Charter

NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 37th IETF Meeting in San Jose. It may now be out-of-date. (Consider this a "snapshot" of the working group from that meeting.) Up-to-date charters for all active working groups can be found elsewhere in this Web server.

Chair(s)

Ralph Droms <droms@bucknell.edu>

Internet Area Director(s):

Frank Kastenholz <kasten@ftp.com>
Jeffrey Burgan <jburgan@baynetworks.com>

Mailing List Information

General Discussion:dhcp-v4@bucknell.edu
To Subscribe: listserv@bucknell.edu
Archive: ftp://ftp.bucknell.edu/pub/dhcp

Description of Working Group

This working group will produce a protocol for automated allocation, configuration and management of IP addresses and TCP/IP protocol stack parameters. Specific functions to be included in the protocol include:

o Automated allocation and recovery of IP addresses

o Automated configuration of all TCP/IP stack parameters, as described in the Host Requirements documents

o Automated registration with the DNS

o Automated configuration of other host parameters such as application layer services

o Inter-server communication for coordination of multiple servers

As part of the work in devising strategies to facilitate renumbering, the WG will coordinate with the work of the PIER WG, and will consider the recommendations of the PIER WG in the further development of host configuration mechanisms

A specification the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) for IPv4 has been entered into the IETF standards track. As of 10/95, it has been submitted for acceptance as a "Draft Standard". The working group is also developing a specification for DHCP for IPv6 (DHCPv6), which is currently available as an Internet Draft.

More information on DHCP can be found at

http://www.bucknell.edu/~droms/dhcp.

Goals and Milestones

Done: Submit the DHCP protocol specification to the IESG for consideration as a Draft Standard.
Nov 95: Submit the DHCP options specification to the IESG for consideration as a Draft Standard.
Done: Revise the DHCPv6 Internet-Draft for discussion at the Dallas IETF meeting.
Apr 96: Submit server-server protocol specification as an Internet-Draft.
Apr 96: Submit renumbering procedure specification as an Internet-Draft.
Apr 96: Submit FQDN, option 127 and option acceptence process documents to IESG for consideration as Proposed Standards.
Jun 96: Develop options for automated registration in DNS.
Sep 96: Submit the DHCP protocol specification to the IESG for consideration as an Internet Standard.
Sep 96: Submit the DHCP options specification to the IESG for consideration as an Internet Standard.
Sep 96: Submit the DHCPv6 protocol and options specifications to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.