Subject: [dhcwg] Fwd: [DNSOP] [[email-masked]: BCP 187, RFC 7227 on Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options]

From: Ted Lemon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 10:14:03 -0400

For those who don't read dnsop, here is a nice thumbs-up for the work on the DHCP Options draft!

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email-masked]>
> Subject: [DNSOP] [[email-masked]: BCP 187, RFC 7227 on Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options]
> Date: May 10, 2014 at 2:18:41 AM EDT
> To: <[email-masked]>
> 
> The issues described in this RFC seem very close from the issues of
> new DNS RR types (reusing elements of previous formats, to avoid
> creating a parser from scratch, thinking in advance of implementation
> considerations, to increase the chances of atcual deployment,
> considering the end systems - provisioning and consumption - not only
> what goes on the wire, etc).
> 
> A very good reading, IMHO.
> 
> 
> Resent-From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email-masked]>
> From: <[email-masked]>
> Subject: BCP 187, RFC 7227 on Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options
> Date: May 8, 2014 at 8:08:09 PM EDT
> Resent-To: <[email-masked]>
> To: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
> Cc: <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>
> Reply-To: <[email-masked]>
> 
> 
> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
> 
>        BCP 187        
>        RFC 7227
> 
>        Title:      Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 
>                    Options 
>        Author:     D. Hankins, T. Mrugalski,
>                    M. Siodelski, S. Jiang,
>                    S. Krishnan
>        Status:     Best Current Practice
>        Stream:     IETF
>        Date:       May 2014
>        Mailbox:    [email-masked], 
>                    [email-masked], 
>                    [email-masked],
>                    [email-masked], 
>                    [email-masked]
>        Pages:      35
>        Characters: 83694
>        Updates:    RFC 3315
>        See Also:   BCP 187
> 
>        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-17.txt
> 
>        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7227.txt
> 
> This document provides guidance to prospective DHCPv6 option
> developers to help them create option formats that are easily
> adoptable by existing DHCPv6 software.  It also provides guidelines
> for expert reviewers to evaluate new registrations.  This document
> updates RFC 3315.
> 
> This document is a product of the Dynamic Host Configuration Working Group of the IETF.
> 
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