Re: [dhcwg] PKIX WG new I-D draft: DHCP section review

While the DHCP(v4+v6) option definitions are now much better (in 02), I
wonder whether this will fly.

Can new options be defined in an Appendix of an RFC?

There's no IANA directives in the draft to request IANA to assign codes
for these options? In fact:

5.  IANA Considerations

   This document has no actions for IANA.

Which is clearly wrong if new DHCP options are to be assigned?

Also, while DHCPv6 has plenty of "available" option numbers, DHCPv4
doesn't have as many. I wonder whether if this is truly experimental,
that a Vendor Specific Information Option (for both v4 + v6) might not
be better? You would need to get an Enterprise-ID if you don't already
have one. If all depends on how widely this is to be implemented (ie,
how experimental is it?).

If 'real' IANA assigned options are desired, the Appendix/IANA
cosniderations issues are more likely for the AD to address? Or you
might want to see what other Experimental RFCs have done in terms of new
definitions for IANA maintained registries.

- Bernie 

-----Original Message-----
From: dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
Of Massimiliano Pala
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 5:20 PM
To: Ralph Droms (rdroms)
Cc: DHC-WG; Damien Neil
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] PKIX WG new I-D draft: DHCP section review

Hi Ralph,

that was kinda not clear to me - I thought that I did not need to define
two different options for DHCPv4 and DHCPv6. I just uploaded the new
version
of the draft where I defined the PRQP server option for DHCPv4 and
DHCPv6.

The new draft is published as:

    http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-prqp-02.txt

Please let me know what you think of this new version and if I
successfully
addressed your concerns :D

Cheers,
Max

Ralph Droms wrote:
> You could choose either IP addresses or FQDNs for the option payload.

> But, you'll still have to define both DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 versions of
the 
> option.
> 
> You might want to look at 
>
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-03.
txt

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