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[dhcwg] Re: Last call for <draft-ietf-dhc-fqdn-option-02.txt>

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com> Mon, 27 August 2001 21:10 UTC

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>the [FQDN] option has already been widely deployed

This I think is the real issue.

The purpose of WG discussion is to discuss protocol design, not to 
rubber-stamp an existing implementation, warts and all.

An Informational RFC is the right place to document an existing 
implementation, warts and all.

Mark, don't misunderstand this. I don't have any objection to you 
shipping products. I do object to a Standards-Track RFC published 
after-the-fact to give the impression that the design of the previously 
mentioned shipping products was the result of IETF Working Group 
Consensus.

If you want this to be a Working Group publication, you have to be able 
to update your deployed products to comply with the eventual Working 
Group Consensus. If you can't update your deployed products to comply, 
then this whole process is a waste of time. Just publish it as 
Informational.

Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>
 * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Computer
 * Chairman, IETF ZEROCONF
 * www.stuartcheshire.org



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