Re: [dhcwg] AD review of draft-ietf-dhc-unused-optioncodes-03.txt

> >A more descriptive title might be better? E.g.:
> >
> >   Reclaiming Unused DHCP Option Codes for Reassignment for Future DHCP
> >   Options.
> >
> >(or something similar)

> OK.

I note that the revised ID stil has the old title. Did you decide to
leave it as is?

> > > Normative References
> >
> >Hmm. Aren't all of the references actually informative? Which ones are
> >critical to *this* document?

To clarify, to me normative means you have to go look at the reference
in order to understand the document being discussed. If the document
is self-contained, it doesn't have to have any normative references.

> I think at least this ref is normative:

>     [1]  Assigned Numbers Editor, IANA., "BOOTP and DHCP Parameters",
>          http://www.iana.org/assignments/bootp-dhcp-parameters,
>          February 2003.

I can go either way. One doesn't need to go look at the IANA registry
to understand this document.

> And this ref gives the definition of the PXE options, and should
> be normative:

>     [4]  Intel Corporation, , "Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
>          Specification Version 2.1",
>          http://www.pix.net/software/pxeboot/archive/pxespec.pdf,
>          September 1999.

But to understand this document, one doesn't have to go read the PXE
document. 

> This ref is arguably normative as it defines a potential use
> for two of the options under review:

>     [5]  Volz, B., Droms, R. and T. Lemon, "Extending DHCP Options
>          Codes", draft-volz-dhc-extended-optioncodes-00.txt (work in
>          progress), September 2000.

Again, I'd argue not critical to understand this document. Another
thing to consider. An ID can't be published as an RFC until all the
normative references are also published. Thus, if the above is
normative, this document needs to wait for the other to be done. I
suspect that is not the intent.

In any case, I've asked that the LC be started.

Thomas

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