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

Tue Dec 8 13:03:40 EST 2015

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:48 PM, L. D. Pinney <ldpinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well, I do keep hoping more folk within openwrt actually try the
hnet-full and babel packages.  and unless someone actually pokes at
the list(s), once in a while, nothing happens. hnet includes a pretty
radical set of changes to how firewalling, ip address assignment and
dns are done...

If there is a better list to poke at, let me know. Sorry to be annoying.

> 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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