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Re: [dhcwg] Please review draft-ietf-pcp-dhcp, particularly section 5.

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 19 March 2014 17:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Please review draft-ietf-pcp-dhcp, particularly section 5.
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On Mar 19, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> wrote:
> Sure. As I said, just a data point. Everything else being equal, it
> would be nice if no programming was necessary.

Given that no standard currently recommends similar behavior, it seems like a bad idea to define a new DHCP feature just because it happens to work in some code base (if, indeed, it does).   It would be better to decide what the right design is and make the minor code changes to support it if necessary.

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