On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the Dynamic Host Configuration WG (dhc) to consider the following document: - 'DHCPv6 Bulk Leasequery ' <draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-bulk-leasequery-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2008-11-03. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. The file can be obtained via http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-bulk-leasequery-04.txt
First there was DHC Leasequery (RFC4388), next DHCv6 Leasequery (RFC5007), now we have DHCv6 Bulk Leasequery. And someone seems to be proposing DHCPv4 bulk leasequery as well (draft-dtv-dhc-dhcpv4-bulk-leasequery).
RFC4388 S4.2 described reasons why SNMP was deemed inappropriate. And if you look at the reasoning there, some of these are not even valid anymore for bulk leasequeries. I remain unconvinced. A far better solution would seem to be define a smaller MIB just for querying leases so implementing it would be trivial. Bulk leasequeries just underline the fact that SNMP and MIB data models are being reinvented inside DHCP.
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