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

[L. D. Pinney]

Why has this been cross posted to the OpenWrt *Development* List?

I fail to see any relevance to the usual and prevailing use of this list.

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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