These minutes were prepared by Ralph Droms; thanks to Barr Hibbs for taking notes
during the meetings and to the WG for revisions and corrections to the minutes.

The WG met twice on 8/24.  Several issues were discussed in the morning session.
DHCP authentication and the web proxy server option were discussed in the afternoon
session.  The morning session included the following topics; any WG action associated
with each topic is included with the topic summary:

- Relay options draft, Mike Patrick (Motorola): summary of changes to option spec
based on input from WG; WG agreed to WG last call and submit this option for
Proposed Standard status

- DHCP in cable modem nets, Poornima Lalwaney (General Instruments): described
use of DHCP in both RF and telco return cable systems, asked that WG consider
additional DHCP functions to support cable modem operation: server MIB, 3rd
party query, relay agent information option; WG asked that the proposed use of
DHCP be published as an I-D

- VAMAC agent sub-option, Burcak Beser (3Com): described proposed sub-option
to relay agent information option for "virtual agent" operation; WG asked that the
proposed sub-option be published as an I-D; WG also asked that Beser and
Lalwaney consider merging their proposals into a single document

- New process for allocating option numbers, Ralph Droms (Bucknell): reviewed
modified process published in <draft-ietf-dhc-new-options-02.txt>; WG asked
process be modified so option number is assigned when RFC for new option is
published; WG agreed to WG last call after editorial changes and submit this
option for Informational status (to be merged into RFC2132 when DHCP goes to
Standard status)

- Host systems characteristics options, Mike Henry (Intel): reviewed changes to host
systems characteristics options and changes to WFM spec that accommodate use
of existing options, and asked that the WG change the 'client identifier' option to
be a globally unique identifier; WG agreed to change, and agreed to publish host
systems characteristics options as Informational, with limitation on use of these
options to 6 years; WG asked that relevant text from WFM docs be extracted into
I-D for DHC WG

- DHCP futures panel, Mike Carney (Sun): reported that there is a new draft of
recommendations from the futures panel

- DHCP autoconfiguration control, Ryan Troll (CMU): reviewed a proposal for a
draft of an option that controls use of autop-configuration by DHCP hosts; WG
agreed to WG last call four weeks after revised draft published and submit for
Proposed Standard status

- DHCP MIB, Glenn Waters (BayNetworks): announced that new server MIB would
be available in two weeks

- There was an expression of interest in development of DHCP schema, with the
suggestion for an interim meeting to work on convergence of the several (3?)
outstanding proposals

- User authentication server option, Steve Drach (Sun): described option to provide
URL of NC authentication server; WG agreed to go to WG last call 4 weeks after
publication of revised draft and submit option for Propsoed Standard

- Safe failover protocol, Bernie Volz (Process): described protocol resulting from
merger of failover and safe failover I-Ds <draft-ietf-dhc-failover-02.txt>

In the afternoon session, Ralph Droms reviewed the minutes from the interim meeting
on DHC authentication from June.  Bill Arbaugh described the Schiller/Huitema/
Droms/Arbaugh (SHDA) protocol, which performs "delayed authentication" based on
discussion at the interim meeting.  The outcome of the interim working group was to
recommend the SHDA and Patel protocols to the WG.  The WG agreed to select the
SHDA protocol for future development.

Finally, Josh Cohen (Microsoft) described the web proxy server option.  There was
discussion of the advisability of combining this option with the authentication server
option in a general purpose "typed URL option".  The WG came to consensus that the
two options should be left separate and the URL option should be considered for the
expanded option space (recommended by the futures panel).  The WG acknowledged
that the current options space is nearly exhausted; Mike Carney agreed to investigate
recovering some of the option space in 128-254 and Ralph Droms agreed to try to
recover previously assigned options that have not been used.

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