Dynamic Host Configuration (dhc) Charter
NOTE: This charter is accurate as of the 32nd IETF Meeting in Danvers. 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may now be out-of-date.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>
- Susan Thomson <set@thumper.bellcore.com>
Mailing List Information
- General Discussion:host-conf@sol.eg.bucknell.edu
- To Subscribe: host-conf-request@sol.eg.bucknell.edu
- Archive: ftp://sol.eg.bucknell.edu/dhcwg
Description of Working Group
The purpose of this working group is to investigate network
configuration and reconfiguration management, and determine those
configuration functions that can be automated, such as Internet
address assignment, gateway discovery and resource location, and those
which cannot be automated (i.e., those that must be managed by network
administrators).
Goals and Milestones
- Done
- Write a BOOTP extensions document.
- Done
- Identify (in the spirit of the Gateway Requirements and Host Requirements RFCs) the information required for hosts and gateways to: exchange packets with other hosts, obtain packet routing information, access the Domain Name System, and access other local and remote services.
- Done
- Summarize those mechanisms already in place for managing the information identified by objective 1.
- Done
- Suggest new mechanisms to manage the information identified by objective 1.
- Done
- Having established what information and mechanisms are required for host operation, examine specific scenarios of dynamic host configuration and reconfiguration, and show how those scenarios can be resolved using existing or proposed management mechanisms.
Current Internet-Drafts
Request for Comments