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Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)
draft-ietf-dhc-rfc8415bis-07

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, dhc-chairs@ietf.org, dhcwg@ietf.org, draft-ietf-dhc-rfc8415bis@ietf.org, evyncke@cisco.com, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org, sureshk@cisco.com
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)' to Internet Standard (draft-ietf-dhc-rfc8415bis-07.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)'
  (draft-ietf-dhc-rfc8415bis-07.txt) as Internet Standard

This document is the product of the Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Erik Kline and Éric Vyncke.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dhc-rfc8415bis/


Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document describes the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for
   IPv6 (DHCPv6): an extensible mechanism for configuring nodes with
   network configuration parameters, IP addresses, and prefixes.
   Parameters can be provided statelessly, or in combination with
   stateful assignment of one or more IPv6 addresses and/or IPv6
   prefixes.  DHCPv6 can operate either in place of or in addition to
   stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC).

   This document obsoletes RFC8415 to incorporate reported errata and to
   obsolete the assignment of temporary addresses (the IA_TA option) and
   the server unicast capability (the Server Unicast option and
   UseMulticast status code).

***RFC 8415 was a proposed standard, this -bis document elevates DHCPv6 to Internet Standard by clarifying the text and removing unused/unimplemented features, i.e., it is suggested that the IESG only review the diffs with RFC 8415, i.e., https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url1=rfc8415&url2=draft-ietf-dhc-rfc8415bis-07&difftype=--html See also section 2.2 of RFC 6410 ***

Working Group Summary (from the shepherd's write-up)

There is strong consensus to progress this document that elevates the
DHCPv6 specification to to an Internet Standard.

Document Quality

There are numerous interoperable implementations on multiple platforms and they
have been documented in an Implementation Status section (Section 22 of the
draft).



Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Suresh Krishnan. The
   Responsible Area Director is Éric Vyncke.

IANA Note

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RFC Editor Note