[OpenWrt-Devel] Fwd: [homenet] Protocol Action: 'Home Networking Control Protocol' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-10.txt)

[Dave Taht]

While I'm dreaming of steadier funding for things I care about,
ietf homenet wg's work is nearly complete.

*most* of the work is already done in openwrt to make all the ietf
homenet proposed standards work, and indeed, be the default in
openwrt. However nobody is funded anymore to take it further, and it
would be nice to see builds taking place and tested automagically - to
finally bring the dream of always interoperable, ipv6 capable cpe and
home routers, plugged in, every which way - a reality.

There are still many details left to make it happen well and be a
truly usable set of interoperable standards - I have a huge list of
things still not encapsulated or negotiated right within the hncp
stack, such as wifi channel selection and uplink bandwidth, and babel
is in need of some love, there are some state machine bugs that need
squashing.....

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: The IESG <iesg-secretary at ietf.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:09 PM
Subject: [homenet] Protocol Action: 'Home Networking Control Protocol'
to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-10.txt)
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce at ietf.org>
Cc: homenet-chairs at ietf.org, mark at townsley.net,
draft-ietf-homenet-hncp at ietf.org, The IESG <iesg at ietf.org>,
homenet at ietf.org, terry.manderson at icann.org, rfc-editor at rfc-editor.org


The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Home Networking Control Protocol'
  (draft-ietf-homenet-hncp-10.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Home Networking Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Brian Haberman and Terry Manderson.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-homenet-hncp/





Technical Summary

This document describes the Home Networking Control Protocol (HNCP),
an extensible distributed configuration protocol for “unmanaged”
(e.g., functions that are not configured manually or by a central
management server of some kind) home network devices. The intent is to
provide a distributed protocol for flooding of basic configuration
state essential to IP network functionality.

HNCP is described as a profile of and extension to the Distributed
Node Consensus Protocol (DNCP).  HNCP enables discovery of network
topology and borders, automated configuration of addresses (using the
algorithm defined in draft-ietf-homenet-prefix-assignment-08), name
resolution, and service discovery.

Working Group Summary

The earliest roots of HNCP are in draft-acee-ospf-ospfv3-autoconfig-00
(Oct 2011) which was eventually published as Standards Track RFC 7503,
 with the expectation that other documents would define
HOMENET-specific TLVs to be carried inside OSPFv3.

Strong resistance from the WG (as well as open source router software
developers) to this tight coupling between a specific routing protocol
and network configuration led to the split of HNCP as a standalone
protocol first defined in draft-stenberg-homenet-hncp-00.

Later, DNCP (generic aspects of HNCP concerning synchronization of
state among a set of nodes using Trickle[RFC6206]) were split from the
main HNCP document to allow for modularity and potential reuse. After
this final split, the HNCP document describes the HOMENET-specific
TLVs and the DNCP profile used to synchronize them across the home
network.

Document Quality

  Are there existing implementations of the protocol?

The reference “hnetd” implementation is at
https://github.com/sbyx/hnetd/ (project homepage at
http://www.homewrt.org/doku.php).

There is a second (fully independent and interoperable) implementation
available at https://github.com/jech/shncpd developed entirely from
the specification documents without referal to the reference
implementation.

There is a partial third implementation, though not fully independent,
available here: https://github.com/fingon/pysyma


  Have a significant number of vendors indicated their plan to
  implement the specification?


The reference implementation has been a part of routing feed of
OpenWrt since Barrier Breaker (14.07) release in July, 2014.

Google Nest, Comcast Xfinity, D-Link, Freebox, Technicolor, and Cisco
have all expressed interest in implementing and/or shipping HNCP. HNCP
is referenced in version 1.0 of the Thread Specification (Nest,
Samsung, etc.)

“Homenet” running either the early OSPF version and later HNCP (with
DNCP) has been demonstrated publicly at 9 IETF BnB events (every BnB
since BnB began, plus at least one “pre BnB” event), HNCP split off
from OSPF has been demontrated at the last 5 IETF BnB events. In
addition to IETF, Homenet Implementations have been presented at:

3 IPv6 World Congress events in Paris
1 CES Event in Las Vegas
1 Cablelabs Meeting in Denver, Co

Are there any reviewers that merit special mention as having done a
thorough review,  e.g., one that resulted in important changes or a
conclusion that the document had no substantive issues? If there was a
MIB Doctor, Media Type or other expert review, what was its course
(briefly)? In the case of a Media Type review, on what date was the
request posted?

Thomas Clausen provided an exhaustive review on behalf of Routing Area
resulting in a number of changes to the document. Review (and coding
effort) by Juliusz Chroboczek indicated that a second interoperable
implementation was doable, and he provided only some minor
clarifications that were incorporated later on. A number of other
people have also reviewed the document.

Personnel

  Who is the Document Shepherd?

Mark Townsley

  Who is the Responsible Area Director?

Terry Manderson

RFC-Editor Note

It would be helpful if this document was clustered with the
publication of draft-ietf-homenet-dncp-12

IANA Note

Document requests one IANA registry for TLV-types with action “RFC required”,
initial contents and policies are given. Furthermore allocation of two
UDP ports and a well-known IPv6 link-local multicast group are
requested, the purpose of the allocation is mentioned.


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