The IESG has approved the following document: - 'DHCPv6 Failover Requirements' (draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-failover-requirements-07.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Lemon and Brian Haberman. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-failover-requirements/ Technical Summary This document outlines the requirements for DHCPv6 failover, enumerates related problems, and discusses the proposed scope of work to be conducted. This document does not define a DHCPv6 failover protocol. Working Group Summary The need for a DHCPv6 failover protocol had been discussed by the WG ever since RFC 3315 was published. After some discussion on how to approach this work given the lack of progress for the DHCPv4 draft (draft-ietf-dhc-failover), work was begun in June 2011 on the first of a possible series of documents. And adopted by the WG in October 2011. The document has good support from key individuals (those that worked on or implemented the DHCPv4 failover draft), but does lack broad support - though no one raised any objection to the work. Document Quality The document builds on earlier DHCPv4 work (draft-ietf-dhc-failover). The document has had a thorough review by a small number of very interested and knowledgable folks (mentioned in the acknowledgements section). There were no significant points of difficulty or controversy, primarily as this work builds on earlier DHCPv4 work. Personnel Bernie Volz is the document shepherd. Ted Lemon is the responsible AD.
