[dhcwg] Minor inconsistencies with draft-ietf-dhc-packetcable-04.txt

Bud Millwood <budm@weird-solutions.com> Thu, 14 November 2002 11:00 UTC

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Apologies for not getting these out sooner, I've just gotten around to 
implementing this option.

draft-ietf-dhc-packetcable-04.txt

In this document, two things seem to veer slightly from the existing DHCP 
protocol.

First, it seems that suboptions 1 and 2 could be consolidated into one 
suboption only. Regular DHCP options carry multiple values in preferential 
order, so I don't see why this suboption couldn't do the same.

Second, I'd rather see suboption 3 broken out into two different suboptions 
denoting the different data types. I'm not aware of any other DHCP option 
that has a type field.

Bud Millwood
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