CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Ralph Droms/Bucknell DHC Minutes The discussion at this meeting was driven by three primary agenda items: o BOOTP forwarding agent document -- Walt Wimer o Dynamic IP assignment protocol -- Jesse Walker o DHCP Internet Draft -- Ralph Droms There was also discussion of future work. Walt Wimer prepared a detailed description of the BOOTP forwarding agent (which is only hinted at in the BOOTP RFCs) for use in the Router Requirements RFC and in the DHCP RFC. The Working Group decided the appropriate course of action would be to publish Walt's document as a separate RFC updating the original BOOTP RFCs [RFC-951, RFC-1084], with a reference from the Router Requirements RFC to this new RFC. The Working Group also discussed some changes and filled in some details in the new RFC. Walt is working on incorporating the Working Group's suggestions and some other clarifications to the original BOOTP RFCs to prepare his document for publication as an Internet Draft. A draft version of the revised BOOTP forwarding agent document is available for anonymous FTP from host sol.bucknell.edu in file dhcwg/bootp-forwarding. Next, the Working Group discussed Jesse Walker's description of the dynamic IP address allocation and configuration parameter transmission algorithm. The Working Group was in general agreement with the description of the client-server protocol. There was a spirited discussion for and against the use of multiple DHCP exchanges for the transmission of configuration parameters, e.g., in the case where there are more parameters than could be transmitted in a single DHCP packet. This discussion interacted with an earlier discussion about negotiation for transmission of parameters: a client may need to request certain, specific parameters while a server may need to send parameters that were not requested but should have non-default values in the client. The ``Tastes Great'' contingent felt that restricting the client to a single DHCP request was too restricting, while the ``Less Filling'' contingent argued for simplicity and pointed to extension mechanisms (reusing fields in the BOOTP protocol specification, using TFTP to download larger configuration files) that could be used in those cases where the parameters could not all fit in a single DHCP packet. The Working Group concluded that it ws likely that whoever wrote the protocol 1 specification would likely get to decide the issue. Two documents will be put up for consideration as Internet Drafts before the next meeting of the Working Group: Walt's BOOTP relaying agent document, and a description of the client-server component of DHCP, based on Jesse's contribution. At the next meeting, we will take up the server-server DHCP protocol. We must also begin discussion of an SNMP interface to DHCP; anyone anxious to write a MIB definition for DHCP? There is a mailing list for this Working Group at host-conf@sol.bucknell.edu (administrivia to host-conf-request). An archive of the mailing list and other documents of interest are available for anonymous FTP from sol.bucknell.edu under directory dhcwg. Attendees Steve Alexander stevea@i88.isc.com Karl Auerbach karl@eng.sun.com Richard Basch probe@mit.edu Lida Carrier lida@apple.com Karen Frisa karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu Robert Gilligan gilligan@sun.com Tom Grant grant@xylogics.com Ajay Kachrani kachrani@regent.enet.dec.com Tom Kessler kessler@sun.com Jim Kinder jdk@fibercom.com Darren Kinley kinley@crim.ca Joshua Littlefield josh@cayman.com Gary Malkin gmalkin@ftp.com Bill Manning bmanning@houston.sc.ti.com Leo McLaughlin ljm@ftp.com Linda Melvin infopath@well.sf.ca.us Greg Minshall minshall@wc.novell.com Robert Morgan morgan@jessica.stanford.edu Brad Parker brad@cayman.com Michael Patton map@lcs.mit.edu Jonathan Saperia saperia@decwrl.enet.dec.com Tim Seaver tas@mcnc.org Paul Selkirk paul@ftp.com Glenn Trewitt trewitt@pa.dec.com Mike Turico mturico@mot.com John Veizades veizades@apple.com Kathleen Wilde wilde@decvax.dec.com Walter Wimer walter.wimer@andrew.cmu.edu John Wobus jmwobus@suvm.acs.syr.edu Wing Fai Wong wfwong@malta.sbi.com 2