RE: [dhcwg] Assigning DHCPv6 option codes

Barr - my memory is that you proposed sunsetting of option codes *after* 
they've gone to PS and have been published in an RFC.  My suggestion was to 
sunset the option codes - and to capture the sunsetting process in an RFC - 
after adoption as a WG work item and before publication as an RFC.

- Ralph

At 02:50 PM 1/23/2002 -0800, Richard Barr Hibbs wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ralph Droms
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 09:43
> >
> > There's a little more to it than just the scarcity of option codes in
> > DHCPv4.  Just before we instituted the new policy of assigning an option
> > code after acceptance to PS, there were several (10-15 or so) that were
> > proposed, had option codes assigned, and then were never followed up
> > on.  Those option codes are now in limbo.
> >
> > Even though we have plenty of options code in DHCPv6, I don't
> > think it's a good idea to have option codes in an uncertain state -
> > assigned to options that never went to PS.  Perhaps we need some sort
> > of sunsetting to establish a process for marking option codes as
> > "unused - do not reassign"...
> >
>
>...you may recall that I proposed exactly that -- the sunsetting of option
>codes -- at least twice in working group meetings, but Thomas Narten argued
>convincingly that the IETF has never been very good at enforcing adherence
>to updated RFCs, and may never be able to do anything but move an RFC to
>Historic status, which doesn't provide any practical, timely relief for the
>option exhaustion problem.
>
>I'd love for most options to be subject either to a sunset clause, but I
>don't know how effective it would be -- certainly one side effect would be
>to keep the DHC working group in existence for a long, long time.
>
>--Barr
>
>
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