Re: [dhcwg] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-option-02.txt

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

John Schnizlein wrote:
> 
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:50 PM, Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:
>> ...
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-option-02.txt
>> ...

<snip/>

> Unfortunately, it still contains the following unnecessary text, which
> conflicts with existing practice and section 4 of
> draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-rfc868-servers-00.txt, which was the subject of a
> WG last call from June 6 to June 20.  It does no harm to continue the
> existing practice, although operational use of the existing offset
> option could be improved by providing options for when to change the
> offset and to what to change it.  What is the benefit of deprecating
> what is in use?

The text is not unnecessary.

The timezone options contain all of the information in the time offset
option, and more. The time offset does not provide enough information to
properly configure clients, although with a certain amount of trickery
it can come close.

Implementors should be encouraged to move to the timezone options.

- --
Shane
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFEvUytMsfZxBO4kbQRAjcKAJ4iWaryHgJqU4SlJShUIcn3EILGngCgnpfc
3AaAXnnh7tFVKpFweqb4WPU=
=ogX4
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

_______________________________________________
dhcwg mailing list
dhcwg@ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcwg