Networks in the Small (Home Networks) BOF (nits) Monday, March 15 at 1530-1730 ============================= Chairs: Peter Ford Stuart Cheshire DESCRIPTION: Small networks operate with a variety of protocols today including AppleTalk, IPX and Netbios. As the industry moves to IP infrastructure we will need to provide for similar functionality such as pure ease of configuration and operation for the IP protocol suite. To that end we need to to perform service location, name resolution and other network configuration (such as IPv4 address assignment) in such networks. There are several individual proposals on the table for parts of a potential solution, but we need to look at this from a more holistic perspective to insure great interoperability in small nets such as IP based SOHO LANs. For service discovery we have SLP and DNS SRV records. Peter Ford has a soon to be sent to I-D draft on multicast DNS. Microsoft and Apple are shipping automatic IPv4 address assigned systems. IPv6 has self configuring address. AGENDA: Discuss several of the pieces (5-10 minutes per presenter) Peter Ford/Ryan Troll on IPv4 self config Woocock/Vixie/Bill on DNS discovery Erik Guttman on SLP Tom Narten on autoconfig of IPv6 Perhaps some NAT stuff Discuss a reference stack and its operation?