Subject: RE: Issues with SLAAC
Date: 2010-10-29
From: Ralph Droms, Internet Area Director
To: Gavin Young, Broadband Forum Technical Committee Chair
CC: David Allan

Thank you for your liaison of September 24, 2010, asking about the
status and future progress on IETF Internet Draft
draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark.

The 6man working group has just completed its review of
draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08 for adoption as a working group work
item. The working group chairs have decided there is consensus in
support of draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-08 and it will be adopted as
a work item.

While draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark has been adopted as a 6man working
group work item, there have been several issues raised during the
working group consensus call. The 6man working group may make
significant changes to the mechanisms in the specification before
considering it for publication as an RFC, and indeed there is no
guarantee that the group will publish the specification.

To aid in the review and development of the specification, it would
be useful if you send a description of BBF's N:1 VLAN
architecture and a set of requirements to the 6man working group.

A solution based on DHCPv6 could use existing line-identification
mechanisms and would not require the development of any new protocol
extensions.