DHCPv6 Options for Home Network Naming Authority
draft-ietf-homenet-naming-architecture-dhc-options-15
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draft-ietf-homenet-naming-architecture-dhc-options-15
Homenet D. Migault
Internet-Draft Ericsson
Intended status: Standards Track R. Weber
Expires: 15 December 2022 Akamai
T. Mrugalski
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
13 June 2022
DHCPv6 Options for Home Network Naming Authority
draft-ietf-homenet-naming-architecture-dhc-options-15
Abstract
This document defines DHCPv6 options so an agnostic Homenet Naming
Authority (HNA) can automatically proceed to the appropriate
configuration and outsource the authoritative naming service for the
home network. In most cases, the outsourcing mechanism is
transparent for the end user.
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Table of Contents
1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Procedure Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. DHCPv6 Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.1. Registered Homenet Domain Option . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4.2. Distribution Manager Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4.2.1. Supported Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3. Reverse Distribution Manager Server Option . . . . . . . 6
5. DHCPv6 Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1. DHCPv6 Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2. DHCPv6 Client Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.3. DHCPv6 Relay Agent Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
8. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
9. Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Appendix A. Scenarios and impact on the End User . . . . . . . . 10
Appendix B. Base Scenario . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
B.1. Third Party Registered Homenet Domain . . . . . . . . . . 11
B.2. Third Party DNS Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
B.3. Multiple ISPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1. Terminology
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
"OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
capitals, as shown here.
The reader should be familiar with
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation].
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2. Introduction
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation] specifies how an
entity designated as the Homenet Naming Authority (HNA) outsources a
Public Homenet Zone to an Outsourcing DNS Infrastructure (DOI).
This document describes how a network can provision the HNA with a
specific DOI. This could be particularly useful for a DOI partly
managed by an ISP, or to make home networks resilient to HNA
replacement. The ISP delegates an IP prefix to the home network as
well as the associated reverse zone. The ISP is thus aware of the
owner of that IP prefix, and as such becomes a natural candidate for
hosting the Homenet Reverse Zone - that is the Reverse Distribution
Manager (RDM) and potentially the Reverse Public Authoritative
Servers.
In addition, ISPs often identify the line of the home network with a
name. Such name is used for their internal network management
operations and is not a name the home network owner has registered
to. ISPs may leverage such infrastructure and provide the homenet
with a specific domain name designated as per
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation] a Homenet Registered
Domain. Similarly to the reverse zone, ISPs are aware of who owns
that domain name and may become a natural candidate for hosting the
Homenet Zone - that is the Distribution Manager (DM) and the Public
Authoritative Servers.
This document describes DHCPv6 options that enable an ISP to provide
the necessary parameters to the HNA, to proceed. More specifically,
the ISP provides the Registered Homenet Domain, necessary information
on the DM and the RDM so the HNA can manage and upload the Public
Homenet Zone and the Reverse Public Homenet Zone as described in
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation].
The use of DHCPv6 options may make the configuration completely
transparent to the end user and provides a similar level of trust as
the one used to provide the IP prefix - when provisioned via DHCP.
3. Procedure Overview
This section illustrates how a HNA receives the necessary information
via DHCPv6 options to outsource its authoritative naming service to
the DOI. For the sake of simplicity, and similarly to
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation], this section assumes
that the HNA and the home network DHCPv6 client are colocated on the
Customer Edge (CE) router [RFC7368]. Note also that this is not
mandatory and the DHCPv6 client may instruct remotely the HNA and the
DHCPv6 either with a proprietary protocol or a protocol that will be
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defined in the future. In addition, this section assumes the
responsible entity for the DHCPv6 server is configured with the DM
and RDM. This means a Registered Homenet Domain can be associated to
the DHCPv6 client.
This scenario is believed to be the most popular scenario. This
document does not ignore scenarios where the DHCPv6 server does not
have privileged relations with the DM or RDM. These cases are
discussed in Appendix A. Such scenarios do not necessarily require
configuration for the end user and can also be zero-config.
The scenario considered in this section is as follows:
1. The HNA is willing to outsource the Public Homenet Zone or
Homenet Reverse Zone. The DHCPv6 client is configured to include
in its Option Request Option (ORO) the Registered Homenet Domain
Option (OPTION_REGISTERED_DOMAIN), the Distribution Manager
Option (OPTION_DIST_MANAGER) and the Reverse Distribution Manager
Option (OPTION_REVERSE_DIST_MANAGER) option codes.
2. The DHCPv6 server responds to the HNA with the requested DHCPv6
options based on the identified homenet. The DHCPv6 client
passes the information to the HNA.
1. The HNA is authenticated (see Section 4.6 of
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation]) by the DM and the
RDM. The HNA builds the Homenet Zone (or the Homenet Reverse
Zone) and proceed as described in
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation]. The DHCPv6
options provide the necessary non optional parameters described
in Section 14 of [I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation].
The HNA may complement the configurations with additional
parameters via means not yet defined. Section 14 of
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation] describes such
parameters that MAY take some specific non default value.
4. DHCPv6 Option
This section details the payload of the DHCPv6 options.
4.1. Registered Homenet Domain Option
The Registered Domain Option (OPTION_REGISTERED_DOMAIN) indicates the
FQDN associated to the home network.
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0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| OPTION_REGISTERED_DOMAIN | option-len |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| |
/ Registered Homenet Domain /
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 1: Registered Domain Option
* option-code (16 bits): OPTION_REGISTERED_DOMAIN, the option code
for the Registered Homenet Domain (TBD1).
* option-len (16 bits): length in octets of the Registered Homenet
Domain field as described in [RFC8415].
* Registered Homenet Domain (variable): the FQDN registered for the
homenet encoded as described in Section 10 of [RFC8415].
4.2. Distribution Manager Option
The Distributed Manager Option (OPTION_DIST_MANAGER) provides the HNA
with the FQDN of the DM as well as the transport protocols for the
communication between the HNA and the DM.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| OPTION_DIST_MANAGER | option-len |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Supported Transport | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
| |
/ Distribution Manager FQDN /
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 2: Distribution Manager Option
* option-code (16 bits): OPTION_DIST_MANAGER, the option code for
the Distribution Manager Option (TBD2).
* option-len (16 bits): length in octets of the enclosed data as
described in [RFC8415].
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* Supported Transport (16 bits): defines the supported transport by
the DM (see Section 4.2.1). Each bit represents a supported
transport, and a DM MAY indicate the support of multiple modes.
The bit for DNS over TLS [RFC7858] MUST be set.
* Distribution Manager FQDN (variable): the FQDN of the DM encoded
as described in Section 10 of [RFC8415].
4.2.1. Supported Transport
The Supported Transport field of the DHCPv6 option indicates the
supported transport protocols. Each bit represents a specific
transport mechanism. A bit sets to 1 indicates the associated
transport protocol is supported. The corresponding bits are assigned
as described in Figure 3 and Section 6.
Bit Position | Transport Protocol | Reference
-------------+--------------------+-----------
0 | DNS over TLS | This-RFC
1-15 | unallocated |
Figure 3: Supported Transport
DNS over TLS: indicates the support of DNS over TLS as described in
[RFC7858].
4.3. Reverse Distribution Manager Server Option
The Reverse Distribution Manager Option (OPTION_REVERSE_DIST_MANAGER)
provides the HNA with the FQDN of the DM as well as the transport
protocols for the communication between the HNA and the DM.
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| OPTION_REVERSE_DIST_MANAGER | option-len |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Supported Transport | |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ |
| |
/ Reverse Distribution Manager FQDN /
| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Figure 4: Reverse Distribution Manager Option
* option-code (16 bits): OPTION_REVERSE_DIST_MANAGER, the option
code for the Reverse Distribution Manager Option (TBD3).
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* option-len (16 bits): length in octets of the option-data field as
described in [RFC8415].
* Supported Transport (16 bits): defines the supported transport by
the RDM (see Section 4.2.1). Each bit represents a supported
transport, and a RDM MAY indicate the support of multiple modes.
The bit for DNS over TLS [RFC7858] MUST be set.
* Reverse Distribution Manager FQDN (variable): the FQDN of the RDM
encoded as described in section 10 of [RFC8415].
5. DHCPv6 Behavior
5.1. DHCPv6 Server Behavior
Sections 17.2.2 and 18.2 of [RFC8415] govern server operation in
regards to option assignment. As a convenience to the reader, we
mention here that the server will send option foo only if configured
with specific values for foo and if the client requested it. In
particular, when configured the DHCPv6 server sends the Registered
Homenet Domain Option, Distribution Manager Option, the Reverse
Distribution Manager Option when requested by the DHCPv6 client by
including necessary option codes in its ORO.
5.2. DHCPv6 Client Behavior
The DHCPv6 client includes Registered Homenet Domain Option,
Distribution Manager Option, the Reverse Distribution Manager Option
in an ORO as specified in Sections 18.2.1, 18.2.2, 18.2.4, 18.2.5,
18.2.6, and 21.7 of [RFC8415].
Upon receiving a DHCPv6 option described in this document in the
Reply message, the HNA SHOULD proceed as described in
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation].
5.3. DHCPv6 Relay Agent Behavior
There are no additional requirements for the DHCPv6 Relay agents.
6. IANA Considerations
IANA is requested to assign the following new DHCPv6 Option Codes in
the registry maintained in: https://www.iana.org/assignments/dhcpv6-
parameters/dhcpv6-parameters.xhtml#dhcpv6-parameters-2.
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Value Description Client ORO Singleton Option
TBD1 OPTION_REGISTERED_DOMAIN Yes No
TBD2 OPTION_DIST_MANAGER Yes Yes
TBD3 OPTION_REVERSE_DIST_MANAGER Yes Yes
IANA is requested to maintain a new number space of Supported
Transport parameter in the Distributed Manager Option
(OPTION_DIST_MANAGER) or the Reverse Distribution Manager Option
(OPTION_REVERSE_DIST_MANAGER). The different parameters are defined
in Figure 3 in Section 4.2.1. Future code points are assigned under
Specification Required as per [RFC8126].
7. Security Considerations
The security considerations in [RFC8415] are to be considered. The
use of DHCPv6 options provides a similar level of trust as the one
used to provide the IP prefix. The link between the HNA and the
DHCPv6 server may benefit from additional security for example by
using [I-D.ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6].
8. Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Marcin Siodelski, Bernie Volz and Ted Lemon
for their comments on the design of the DHCPv6 options. We would
also like to thank Mark Andrews, Andrew Sullivan and Lorenzo Colliti
for their remarks on the architecture design. The designed solution
has been largely been inspired by Mark Andrews's document
[I-D.andrews-dnsop-pd-reverse] as well as discussions with Mark. We
also thank Ray Hunter and Michael Richardson for its reviews, its
comments and for suggesting an appropriated terminology.
9. Contributors
The co-authors would like to thank Chris Griffiths and Wouter
Cloetens that provided a significant contribution in the early
versions of the document.
10. References
10.1. Normative References
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation]
Migault, D., Weber, R., Richardson, M., and R. Hunter,
"Simple Provisioning of Public Names for Residential
Networks", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
homenet-front-end-naming-delegation-16, 13 June 2022,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-homenet-front-
end-naming-delegation-16.txt>.
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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC7858] Hu, Z., Zhu, L., Heidemann, J., Mankin, A., Wessels, D.,
and P. Hoffman, "Specification for DNS over Transport
Layer Security (TLS)", RFC 7858, DOI 10.17487/RFC7858, May
2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7858>.
[RFC8126] Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.
[RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.
[RFC8415] Mrugalski, T., Siodelski, M., Volz, B., Yourtchenko, A.,
Richardson, M., Jiang, S., Lemon, T., and T. Winters,
"Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)",
RFC 8415, DOI 10.17487/RFC8415, November 2018,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8415>.
10.2. Informative References
[I-D.andrews-dnsop-pd-reverse]
Andrews, M., "Automated Delegation of IP6.ARPA reverse
zones with Prefix Delegation", Work in Progress, Internet-
Draft, draft-andrews-dnsop-pd-reverse-02, 4 November 2013,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-andrews-dnsop-pd-
reverse-02.txt>.
[I-D.ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6]
Li, L., Jiang, S., Cui, Y., Jinmei, T., Lemon, T., and D.
Zhang, "Secure DHCPv6", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
draft-ietf-dhc-sedhcpv6-21, 21 February 2017,
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-
sedhcpv6-21.txt>.
[I-D.sury-dnsext-cname-dname]
Sury, O., "CNAME+DNAME Name Redirection", Work in
Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-sury-dnsext-cname-dname-
00, 15 April 2010, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-
sury-dnsext-cname-dname-00.txt>.
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[RFC1034] Mockapetris, P., "Domain names - concepts and facilities",
STD 13, RFC 1034, DOI 10.17487/RFC1034, November 1987,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1034>.
[RFC2181] Elz, R. and R. Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS
Specification", RFC 2181, DOI 10.17487/RFC2181, July 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2181>.
[RFC6672] Rose, S. and W. Wijngaards, "DNAME Redirection in the
DNS", RFC 6672, DOI 10.17487/RFC6672, June 2012,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6672>.
[RFC7368] Chown, T., Ed., Arkko, J., Brandt, A., Troan, O., and J.
Weil, "IPv6 Home Networking Architecture Principles",
RFC 7368, DOI 10.17487/RFC7368, October 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7368>.
Appendix A. Scenarios and impact on the End User
This section details various scenarios and discuss their impact on
the end user. This section is not normative and limits the
description of a limited scope of scenarios that are assumed to be
representative. Many other scenarios may be derived from these.
Appendix B. Base Scenario
The base scenario is the one described in Section 3 in which an ISP
manages the DHCPv6 server, the DM and RDM.
The end user subscribes to the ISP (foo), and at subscription time
registers for example.foo as its Registered Homenet Domain
example.foo.
In this scenario, the DHCPv6 server, DM and RDM are managed by the
ISP so the DHCPv6 server and as such can provide authentication
credentials of the HNA to enable secure authenticated transaction
with the DM and the Reverse DM.
The main advantage of this scenario is that the naming architecture
is configured automatically and transparently for the end user. The
drawbacks are that the end user uses a Registered Homenet Domain
managed by the ISP and that it relies on the ISP naming
infrastructure.
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B.1. Third Party Registered Homenet Domain
This section considers the case when the end user wants its home
network to use example.com not managed by her ISP (foo) as a
Registered Homenet Domain. This section still consider the ISP
manages the home network and still provides example.foo as a
Registered Homenet Domain.
When the end user buys the domain name example.com, it may request to
redirect the name example.com to example.foo using static redirection
with CNAME [RFC2181], [RFC1034], DNAME [RFC6672] or CNAME+DNAME
[I-D.sury-dnsext-cname-dname].
This configuration is performed once when the domain name example.com
is registered. The only information the end user needs to know is
the domain name assigned by the ISP. Once this configuration is done
no additional configuration is needed anymore. More specifically,
the HNA may be changed, the zone can be updated as in Appendix B
without any additional configuration from the end user.
The main advantage of this scenario is that the end user benefits
from the Zero Configuration of the Base Scenario Appendix B. Then,
the end user is able to register for its home network an unlimited
number of domain names provided by an unlimited number of different
third party providers. The drawback of this scenario may be that the
end user still rely on the ISP naming infrastructure. Note that the
only case this may be inconvenient is when the DNS servers provided
by the ISPs results in high latency.
B.2. Third Party DNS Infrastructure
This scenario considers that the end user uses example.com as a
Registered Homenet Domain, and does not want to rely on the
authoritative servers provided by the ISP.
In this section we limit the outsourcing to the DM and Public
Authoritative Server(s) to a third party. The Reverse Public
Authoritative Server(s) and the RDM remain managed by the ISP as the
IP prefix is managed by the ISP.
Outsourcing to a third party DM can be performed in the following
ways:
1. Updating the DHCPv6 server Information. One can imagine a GUI
interface that enables the end user to modify its profile
parameters. Again, this configuration update is done once-for-
ever.
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2. Upload the configuration of the DM to the HNA. In some cases,
the provider of the CE router hosting the HNA may be the
registrar and provide the CE router already configured. In other
cases, the CE router may request the end user to log into the
registrar to validate the ownership of the Registered Homenet
Domain and agree on the necessary credentials to secure the
communication between the HNA and the DM. As described in
[I-D.ietf-homenet-front-end-naming-delegation], such settings
could be performed in an almost automatic way as to limit the
necessary interactions with the end user.
B.3. Multiple ISPs
This scenario considers a HNA connected to multiple ISPs.
Suppose the HNA has been configured each of its interfaces
independently with each ISPS as described in Appendix B. Each ISP
provides a different Registered Homenet Domain.
The protocol and DHCPv6 options described in this document are fully
compatible with a HNA connected to multiple ISPs with multiple
Registered Homenet Domains. However, the HNA should be able to
handle different Registered Homenet Domains. This is an
implementation issue which is outside the scope of the current
document.
If a HNA is not able to handle multiple Registered Homenet Domains,
the HNA may remain connected to multiple ISP with a single Registered
Homenet Domain. In this case, one entity is chosen to host the
Registered Homenet Domain. This entity may be one of the ISP or a
third party. Note that having multiple ISPs can be motivated for
bandwidth aggregation, or connectivity fail-over. In the case of
connectivity fail-over, the fail-over concerns the access network and
a failure of the access network may not impact the core network where
the DM and Public Authoritative Primaries are hosted. In that sense,
choosing one of the ISP even in a scenario of multiple ISPs may make
sense. However, for sake of simplicity, this scenario assumes that a
third party has been chosen to host the Registered Homenet Domain.
Configuration is performed as described in Appendix B.1 and
Appendix B.2.
With the configuration described in Appendix B.1, the HNA is expect
to be able to handle multiple Homenet Registered Domain, as the third
party redirect to one of the ISPs servers. With the configuration
described in Appendix B.2, DNS zone are hosted and maintained by the
third party. A single DNS(SEC) Homenet Zone is built and maintained
by the HNA. This latter configuration is likely to match most HNA
implementations.
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The protocol and DHCPv6 options described in this document are fully
compatible with a HNA connected to multiple ISPs. To configure or
not and how to configure the HNA depends on the HNA facilities.
Appendix B and Appendix B.1 require the HNA to handle multiple
Registered Homenet Domain, whereas Appendix B.2 does not have such
requirement.
Authors' Addresses
Daniel Migault
Ericsson
8275 Trans Canada Route
Saint Laurent, QC 4S 0B6
Canada
Email: daniel.migault@ericsson.com
Ralf Weber
Akamai
Email: ralf.weber@akamai.com
Tomek Mrugalski
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
950 Charter Street
Redwood City, 94063
United States of America
Email: tomasz.mrugalski@gmail.com
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