Networks in the Small (Home Networks) BOF (nits)

Monday, March 15 at 1530-1730
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Chairs: Peter Ford <peterf@microsoft.com>
        Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>

DESCRIPTION:

Small networks operate with a variety of protocols today including
AppleTalk, IPX and Netbios. As the industry moves to IP infrastructure 
we will need to provide for similar functionality such as pure ease of
configuration and operation for the IP protocol suite. To that end we
need to to perform service location, name resolution and other network
configuration (such as IPv4 address assignment) in such networks. There
are several individual proposals on the table for parts of a potential
solution, but we need to look at this from a more holistic perspective to
insure great interoperability in small nets such as IP based SOHO LANs.
 
For service discovery we have SLP and DNS SRV records.
 
Peter Ford has a soon to be sent to I-D draft on multicast DNS.
 
Microsoft and Apple are shipping automatic IPv4 address assigned systems.
 
IPv6 has self configuring address.
 
AGENDA:
 
Discuss several of the pieces (5-10 minutes per presenter)
  Peter Ford/Ryan Troll on IPv4 self config
  Woocock/Vixie/Bill on DNS discovery
  Erik Guttman on SLP
  Tom Narten on autoconfig of IPv6
  Perhaps some NAT stuff
 
Discuss a reference stack and its operation?