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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Ralph Droms/Bucknell University
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- MINUTES
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- The Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group met in two half-day
- sessions in Hawaii. The primary purpose of the meetings was to discuss
- the Working Group's Internet Draft describing the dynamic host
- configuration problem. The Working Group agreed on a final draft, which
- has been added to the IETF Internet Draft series.
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- The Working Group has decided to concentrate first on the problem of
- initializing the network layer. This initialization step includes the
- allocation of an IP address to the host, and transmission of that
- address, along with other subnet parameters such as subnet mask, MTU and
- broadcast address to the host. Current protocols that address the
- network layer initialization problem include RARP, BOOTP, the Athena
- project's Network Information protocol (NIP), and Sun's diskless
- workstation initialization mechanism. Based on the design parameters
- laid out in the draft problem statement document, the Working Group
- expects to define a new initialization protocol based primarily on BOOTP
- and NIP.
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- The Working Group's problem statement has been made available for
- comment as an Internet Draft. This document will be submitted for
- publication as an RFC in after the February, 1990 IETF meeting. At the
- February meeting, work will begin on the definition of the new network
- layer initialization protocol. Upon completion, the protocol definition
- will be submitted as an RFC. An experimental version of the new protocol
- will be developed, based on the current version of NIP, after the
- February meeting.
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- ATTENDEES
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- Almquist, Philip
- Bagnall, Doug
- Borman, Dave
- Brackenridge, Billy
- Catlett, Charlie
- Cook, John
- Easterday, Tom
- Lear, Eliot
- Lekashman, John
- LoVerso, John
- Mamakos, Louis A.
- Melohn, Bill
- Mockapetris, Paul
- Pleasant, Mel
- Reschly, Roberr J.
- Roseustein, Mark
- Schiller, Jeff
- Solensky, Frank
- Vaudreuil, Greg
- Wilder, Bruce
- Yasaki, Brian
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