Re: [dhcwg] Incorporation of WG last call comments in draft-aboba-dhc-domsearch-06.txt

RFC2131 allows for options that can carry
data values longer than 255 bytes, so my understanding,
too, is that the option concatenation standard would
apply to all DHCP options.

- Ralph

At 11:55 AM 9/26/2001 -0700, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> > > >Not sure the reference is normative. This option can use the long option
> > > >encoding if available, but doesn't require it.
> >
> > > Agreed; in fact, I think you could eliminate references to
> > > the long option encoding draft w/o harming your spec...
> >
> > This make sense to me. I will note, however, that current wording in
> > the concat draft could be interpret to suggest that it's intended for
> > future options and maybe less so for existing options. If the intent
> > is in fact that it the concat draft should apply to *all* DHCP
> > options, then taking out the reference would be fine.
> >
> > If that is the intent, I'll go ahead and start the IETF last call on
> > domsearch.
>
>I had thought that concat would apply to all DHCP options that could
>potentially run over the current limit.

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