Re: [dhcwg] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-14.txt> (Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options) to Best Current Practice

Cullen Jennings <fluffy@iii.ca> Fri, 25 October 2013 05:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-14.txt> (Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options) to Best Current Practice
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On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> wrote:

> (c) This document is saying what the DHC working group recommends.   RAI working groups are free to go against these recommendations.   So this document shouldn't say what RAI recommends.   It should say what DHC recommends.   If a working group doesn't want to follow the advice, they don't have to, because it's just advice, not a requirement.

Ted, as an IESG member, are you really sticking to a that the meaning of a BCP?