On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Ralph Droms wrote: > New DHCP option codes are tentatively assigned after the > specification for the associated option, published as an Internet > Draft, has received expert review by a designated expert [11]. The > final assignment of DHCP option codes is through Standards Action, as > defined in RFC 2434 [11].
What does "tentatively assigned" mean? What if the document doesn't get produced in the end, because even though a designated expert is OK with it, it is not useful in general? I don't assume it would be possible to "reclaim" such tentatively assigned numbers, at least easily. But not sure if someone has thought this through? IMHO, the proposal would place too high trust in just one expert saying whether this seems OK or not. The bar needs to be higher, e.g. IESG's decision, or maybe adopting the document as WG item, or something like that. (FWIW, draft-narten-ipv6-iana-considerations-00.txt proposes "IESG Approval" or "Standards Action".) -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
