Re: environment option draft

Marjo Mercado <marjo@hpindsy.cup.hp.com> Tue, 12 October 1993 15:44 UTC

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To: "David A. Borman" <dab@berserkly.cray.com>
Cc: sjogren@tgv.com, stevea@lachman.com, klensin@infoods.mit.edu, telnet-ietf@cray.com, marjo@hpindsy.cup.hp.com
Subject: Re: environment option draft
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Oct 93 12:54:11 PDT." <9310111754.AA02937@frenzy.cray.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 08:43:40 -0700
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From: Marjo Mercado <marjo@hpindsy.cup.hp.com>

Hi Dave,

I suggest that in order to maximize the probability of future interoperability 
with implementors of RFC 1408 that we require that the heuristics be 
implemented.

Thanks,

Marjo Mercado
Hewlett-Packard Company

>>I agree with Steve.  The interoperability document only refers to
>>the original option number, implementations of the new option number
>>do not need to worry about the reversed var/value definition problem
>>(which is the whole point of getting a new option number).

			-David Borman, dab@cray.com