RE: Possible new work item

Hi Melinda,

I'd be more supportive if one or more persons had actually done an
implementation and found it useful in practice (you know, rough
consensus and running code). Otherwise this is purely speculation that
it might be useable and useful to somebody sometime. That doesn't sound
like a good justification to me.

dbh

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Melinda Shore
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:04 PM
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> Subject: [midcom] Possible new work item
> 
> 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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