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[dhcwg] Fwd: Withdrawal of draft-ietf-dhc-unused-optioncodes

In response to the discovery that several option codes previously thought to
be unused are, in fact, in use by devices from Apple Computer, I propose the
changes included below to the Internet Draft "Unused DHCP Option Codes".
These changes will be published in draft-ietf-dhc-unused-optioncodes-07.txt
and the document will be resubmitted to the IESG.

Please respond to these proposed changes by 9AM EDT, Mon, 9/22. If you
agree with the changes as given below, please respond with a simple "OK"
response.

I am working with Dieter Sigmund of Apple to publish Internet Drafts
describing these options.

- Ralph

1st change - move descriptions of option codes 95, 112, 113 and 114 to
section 3 of "Unused DHCP Option Codes":

3.2 In Use by Apple

The following option codes are used by devices from Apple Computer.
However, none of these option codes have been described in a
published RFC.

The dhc WG will endeavor to have specifications for these options
published.

3.2.1 LDAP Servers

Code: 95
Name: LDAP Servers
Defined in: (none)
Contact: Dieter Siegmund, dieter@apple.com
Reason to recover: Never published in an RFC

3.2.2 Netinfo Parameters

Codes: 112, 113
Name: Netinfo Address, Netinfo Tag
Defined in: (none)
Contact: Dieter Siegmund, dieter@apple.com
Reason to recover: Never published in an RFC

3.2.3 URL

Code: 114
Name: URL
Defined in: (none)
Contact: Dieter Siegmund, dieter@apple.com
Reason to recover: Never published in an RFC

2nd change - add a sentence to section "IANA Considerations", specifying that the option codes returned for reassignment in this document should only be used after all of the currently available option codes have been assigned:

6. IANA Considerations

IANA has returned the DHCP option codes listed in Section 2 to the
list of available option codes. These option codes may be reassigned
to new DHCP options, according to the procedures in RFC 2939 [6].
{+IANA is requested to reassign these option codes after the list of
option codes that have never been assigned or have previously been
returned has been exhausted.+}


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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:06:18 -0400
To: iesg-secretary@ietf.org
From: Margaret Wasserman <mrw@windriver.com>
Subject: Withdrawal of draft-ietf-dhc-unused-optioncodes
Cc: iesg@ietf.org, Ralph Droms <rdroms@cisco.com>


Hi All,

We need to officially withdraw draft-ietf-dhc-unused-optioncodes
from the publication queue.

After IESG approval, we discovered that three of the option codes
listed in this document are, in fact, in use by Apple.  See
attached message for details.

We will update the document to remove these options and resubmit
it.  We also plan to modify the IANA considerations section to
indicate that the deprecated option numbers should not be resused
until the unallocated numbers are exhausted.

Please let me or Thomas know if you have any questions or
concerns about this.

Thanks,
Margaret



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Cc: Marc Majka <majka@apple.com>, Vincent Lubet <vlubet@apple.com>,
        dieter@apple.com
From: Dieter Siegmund <dieter@apple.com>
Subject: DHCP options
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:56:00 -0700
To: rdroms@cisco.com
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.581)

Hello,

I noticed the following internet draft:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-unused-optioncodes -06.txt
in which it proposes re-using some options that we're using here at
Apple.

In particular, we are using (and have been using for several releases):
2.7 LDAP Servers
   Code:              95
   Name:              LDAP Servers
   Defined in:        (none)
   Contact:           (none)
   Reason to recover: Never published as Internet-Draft

2.13 Netinfo Parameters
  Codes:             112, 113
  Name:              Netinfo Address, Netinfo Tag
  Defined in:        (none)
  Contact:           Marc Majka
  Reason to recover: Never published as Internet-Draft

We also recently started using:
2.14 URL
   Code:              114
   Name:              URL
   Defined in:        (none)
   Contact:           Vinod Valloppillil
   Reason to recover: Never published as Internet-Draft

I'd like to request that these not be returned to the unassigned pool
to give us time to formally document how they are defined, and that
they are being used.

Sincerely,
Dieter Siegmund
Apple Core OS Networking


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