Re: [dhcwg] Adrian Farrel's Discuss on draft-ietf-dhc-subnet-alloc-12: (with DISCUSS)

Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Wed, 22 June 2011 15:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Adrian Farrel's Discuss on draft-ietf-dhc-subnet-alloc-12: (with DISCUSS)
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Certainly not my preferred approach. I still don't quite understand why 
this isn't simply going for Proposed Standard.

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On 6/21/11 7:52 PM, Ralph Droms wrote:
> Addressing Adrian's DISCUSS, which relates closely to Pete's DISCUSS and Peter's COMMENT, I suggest that the document be retitled along the lines of Adrian's suggestion, "Description of Cisco Systems' Subnet Allocation Option for DHCP" to clarify the content of the document.
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> - Ralph
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> On Jun 21, 2011, at 9:33 AM 6/21/11, Adrian Farrel wrote:
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>> I'm afraid I agree with Pete's Discuss so strongly that I will raise it as my own Discuss.
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>> Either this document should be recast as "Description of Cisco Systems' Subnet Allocation Option for DHCP" (in which case Informational is acceptable) such that it is obvious what and why people might be implementing. Or it should be put on to the Standards Track.
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>> For the avoidance of doubt, I do not object to documents describing what is in the field and allowing people to decide to interoperate with that. In particular, in the 3942 context, this is good and proper. But I do not like the way this document sits on the fence between defining "a new DHCP option" and being Informaitonal.
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