A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : DHCP Relay Initiated Release Author : Sunil M. Gandhewar Filename : draft-gandhewar-dhc-relay-initiated-release-01.txt Pages : 11 Date : 2015-10-01 Abstract: The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is initiated by a DHCP client. A DHCP server can force DHCP client to send DHCPRENEW by sending a DHCPFORCERENEW message. There may be multiple DHCP network devices connected in between a DHCP client and a server, each one reserving resources for the DHCP client. There are no DHCP messages that a relay can initiate in order to control the client binding. A DHCP client may not always send a DHCPRELEASE message when it no longer needs the IP address and network resources for the associated services it is using. This document specifies a way to request release message to be initiated by an intermediate DHCP network device, e.g. DHCP relay, on behalf of DHCP client. This helps to relinquish network resources sooner than the lease expiration time. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gandhewar-dhc-relay-initiated-release/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gandhewar-dhc-relay-initiated-release-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-gandhewar-dhc-relay-initiated-release-01 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt