Re: [dhcwg] Bulk Leasequery for DHCPv6

[Ted Lemon <mellon at fugue.com>]

On Oct 16, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Marcus Goller wrote:
> No, not if there would be the need to replicate the functionality  
> of TCP. Hence my suggestion to introduce a new status code, to tell  
> the requestor "Hey, we know that query type, but using it here is  
> not supported. So go and switch to another transport protocol".  
> Just sending an "UnknowQueryType", if it is indeed supported by the  
> server, would just be misleading. The behaviour of the server  
> should just be consistent between UDP and TCP.

Er, in a protocol sense, existing implementations already know what  
to do with UnknownQueryType; if you add a new status code, they need  
to know what to do with it as well.   Probably the behavior is the  
same: fail.   So presumably you mean that the implementor might find  
this confusing.   I guess I can see your point, but as long as the  
protocol is well-specified, it really shouldn't be a problem.


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