Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: DHCP over IKE vs Configuration Payload

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

    Charlie> DHCP. Do we envision using the advanced capabilities of DHCP to do
    Charlie> things like booting over the IPsec connection? If so,
    Charlie> encapsulating 

  Very few devices (by installed base) use DHCP to boot.
  Yet, when the DHCP server went down at IETF on Sunday, it was a crisis.
  
  The whole point of DHCP is that what Michael Thomas says:

    Michael> pretty hopeless. Thus to my mind, lesser of evils
    Michael> is to beg, borrow and steal and punt as much work
    Michael> as possible to other wg's that actually care about
    Michael> this sort of thing...

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