[DNA-BOF] Charter Discussion: Group Description

[Greg Daley <greg.daley@eng.monash.edu.au>]

Hi,

As part of our work in chartering a working group,
it is necessary to provide a succinct description
of the group, its goals and boundaries.

This description has to address the work's
impact regarding:

(from RFC2418):

"- Architecture
- Operations
- Security
- Network management
- Scaling
- Transition (where applicable)"

The goal of the description is to provide a summary
of the group's coverage, so that uninterested people
can avoid having to join the group, and interested
people understand what we've got to do.


Before the BoF there was a description available on
the mailing list.  I'd like to find out if part of
this is relevant to the potential working group
description.

For your reference, the description follows.

There are basically two descriptions.
The first is a problem description, which doesn't
include DAD or Link Hints, and the second is
a statement of intention.

Part 1 (Description)

"Network Attachment occurs when a host arrives on
a new IP subnet. When attaching to a network, a
host either has current configuration for this
subnet or it must configure addresses. A host
determines whether it requires additional
configuration by Detecting Network Attachment.

When a host has existing upper layer protocols
sessions, it is important to receive a timely
indication that attachment has occurred. This may be
the case if a host is connected intermittently, is
moving or has urgent data to transmit upon attachment
to a link.

For these nodes, it is also important detect if an
acquired subnet or link is new, or has already been visited.
This information may be used to distinguish between
events where configuration must be initiated, or a
host already has valid configuration. "

......

Part 2 (Intention)

"This meeting hopes to providing a forum for those
interested in developing generic attachment detection
technologies for IPv4 and IPv6.


The BOF aims to:

   * Describe existing issues encountered in DHC,
     ZEROCONF, IPv6 Mobileip WGs, which could benefit
     from work on detecting network attachment.

   * Determine applicability of network attachment
     detection to providing configuration hints for
     network and upper layer protocols.

   * Define link layer technologies and network
     topologies where network attachment detection
     is desirable.

   * Determine if sufficient interest exists to form
     a Working Group on this topic.

   * Reach consensus on the area of work for a
     potential WG, including which problems are outside
     scope."


Please tell me whether any part of this is useful,
and inform me of important additional information
which is required.


Greg