Re: [dhcwg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dhc-relay-id-suboption-08.txt

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Mon, 06 June 2011 13:09 UTC

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Le Jun 6, 2011 à 5:36 AM, Bharat Joshi a écrit :
>       Yes. 'type' field has been kept there to keep any future extensibility possible.

It seems to me that the semantics of DUID are sufficiently different than the semantics of this option that it would not be useful to combine them.   Do you see some other use for the type field?