RE : DHCP option - trying again

Hi Martin,

Comments inline,

> I quickly read the documents and I see that they DHCP options
> might be
> useful. The limiting factor is the, by MIDCOM required, mutual
> authentication of agent and middlebox. That's not provided at all.

This technique only provides a way to know the presence of Midcom middlebox
in a network. The scope of this document does not include authentication
which will be done with SNMPv3/Midcom.

> One remark: The text needs probably some shaping for better
> readability: " Midcom middlebox DHCPv6 IPv6 address list
> option (as illustrated in figure 2) specifies a list of
> Midcom middlebox IPv6 addresses that are present in the network."

Fixed this in the next version.

>
> The "list of MIDCOM middlebox IPv6 addresses that are present in the
> network" is what:
> - Available IPv6 addresses you probably get assigned by a NAT on its
> external interface
> - or (more likely) the list of middleboxes that offer MIDCOM
> service at
> these IPv6 addresses?

Fixed!

Thanks for you input!
...J