I-D Action: draft-ietf-intarea-dhcp-rate-signaling-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-ietf-intarea-dhcp-rate-signaling-00.txt is now available.
It is a work item of the Internet Area Working Group (INTAREA) WG of the IETF.

   Title:   DHCP Explicit Rate Signaling
   Authors: Christian Giese
            Richard Patterson
   Name:    draft-ietf-intarea-dhcp-rate-signaling-00.txt
   Pages:   22
   Dates:   2026-08-27

Abstract:

   This document defines new Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
   options for both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 to explicitly signal available
   upstream and downstream data rates.  In many broadband access
   networks, Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) and intermediate nodes
   lack visibility into the subscriber's provisioned service tier.  By
   communicating these capacities natively via DHCP, clients, relay
   agents, and snooping switches can dynamically configure localized
   traffic shaping and queuing.  This explicit signaling improves
   overall network performance by reducing the reliance on
   indiscriminate packet dropping and policing at the service edge.
   Additionally, it provides the necessary capacity awareness to enable
   effective Active Queue Management (AQM) and the Low Latency, Low
   Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) architecture.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-dhcp-rate-signaling/

There is also an HTML version available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-intarea-dhcp-rate-signaling-00.html

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