Subject: [MOBILE-IP] Use of DHCP and Mobile IP

From: Sandy Thuel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:25:03 -0400

I am pleased to announce that we have completed
and submitted a draft proposing a solution for
dynamic home addressing on mobile hosts that use
Mobile IP for mobility and DHCP for configuration.
The draft describes a procedure called
"transient tunneling" that requires no changes
to the Mobile IP nor DHCP standards, while
enabling mobile hosts to dynamically acquire their
home address and other configuration parameters
when they power up in a foreign network.

 A recent I-D posted on this list by Steve Glass
was targeted at addressing the same problem, though following a different
approach from ours.  (Nice
job, Steve!) We are encouraged to see interest in
this problem and hope to spur continued interest and
progress on defining a solution.

 Sandy Thuel
 Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies