Re: IPv6 DNS Autoconfiguration

[Bill Manning <bmanning@ISI.EDU>]

 mind, I am very concerned w/ the goofy IPR/Note Well restrictions,
 so posting/participating is -very- infrequent.  but to pose a query
 to the assembled multitude:

 BIND, a common DNS implementation has the ability to apply access
 controls as a local policy matter as to who can and can not use
 a "recursive resolving nameserver" or what ever it was that Rob said 
 it was.  If one uses the RA/ND techniques, how does one expect to
 extract the local DNS policy information before handing out server
 info via the RA/ND method?

 this weakness was not touched on during Bob Hindons presentation
 and I did not stay for the rest of the sessions festivities




% On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Masataka Ohta wrote:
% > > Beforehand, I'd like to summarize my talk for today's
% > > discussion about DNS Discovery and Autoconfiguration.
% > 
% > Autoconfiguration, as expected by IPv6 folds, is just impossible
% > that it is a pity that DNSOP WG is contaminated.
% > 
% > Autoconfiguration is easy on a single link isolated from the
% > Internet. But, that's all.
% 
% FWIW, my opinion on the subject;
% 
% DHCPv6-lite has been proposed as a means how to fix this problem.
% 
% My issue with DHCPv6-lite is that DHCPv6 spec is some 89 pages, and most 
% options are some 5 (or more) pages more, each.
% 
% Even though DHCPv6-lite is only a subset of that, it still requires 
% reading, understanding etc. a lot of it.  It's much more difficult to get 
% the "big picture" of DHCPv6-lite this way.
% 
% Now, if we had specified DHCPv6 without address assignment (like I
% suggested, but that's beside the point), and put all of the stateful stuff
% ("cruft") in a separate "extension" RFC, we'd be talking about an entirely
% different issue.
% 
% I was a very simple to implement, robust mechanism that's easy to 
% understand.  Reading 20 selected pieces of a large document fills that 
% requirement, IMHO.
% 
% I want a spec which is simple and clear, and less than 15-20 pages long.
% 
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--bill

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