Re: Possible new work item

Hi Melinda,

I'm fine with the new item and support it. The text for proposed charter is 
OK for me.

  Martin

--On Donnerstag, 22. April 2004 15:04 Uhr -0400 Melinda Shore 
<[email protected]> wrote:

| As was discussed here several weeks ago, there's a proposal for midcom
| to add new deliverables - DHCP and DHCPv6 options to configure middlebox
| addresses into endpoints.  If we were to undertake the work, we'd be
| working with the dhc working group (expert review) and ideally we'd
| be able to get a volunteer from that group to work with the editor of the
| deliverable.  I've appended some proposed charter text.  The two
| questions are:
|
| 1) do we want to take on the work, and
| 2) is the proposed charter paragraph okay?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Melinda
|
|
| The working group will also produce documents describing DHCP and
| DHCPv6 options for configuring middlebox addresses into endpoints.
| These are not a replacement for a more sophisticated routing or
| discovery mechanism, but may prove useful in simple network topologies
| where network endpoints are making requests directly of middleboxes
| rather than relying on third parties, such as call control servers, to
| make middlebox requests on their behalf.
|
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