Re: [dhcwg] draft-dhankins-dhcp-option-guidelines-00

Stig Venaas <stig.venaas@uninett.no> Wed, 25 April 2007 04:07 UTC

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David W. Hankins wrote:
[...]
> At this point, the document is essentially complete so far as I
> know, which means that any good advice to draft writers you can
> think of for any section of the document would be great feedback.

Thanks for writing this, I think it is a very useful document. Some
further guidelines should perhaps be added. One might be to discuss
why option size is a big issue and suggest that people make options
consume a minimal amount of space (e.g. not put XML into dhc, but
rather a URL to a document...). Perhaps also suggest that new options
should in general be requested by the client and only returned by
server upon request?

I think we should put all the general considerations for designing
new options into this document so that people specifying new options
do it right. The syntax is not the only consideration.

Stig

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