Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05

[Thomas Narten <narten at us.ibm.com>]

> On Oct 6, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Thomas Narten wrote:
> > Would a resonable criteria be that multiple options are OK if you can
> > process them in whatever order you find them easily, without having to
> > go through the entire message and find other related options that must
> > be processed together?

> I'm a little puzzled by this particular concern.   Why is it a problem  
> that you have to "go through the entire message" to find multiple  
> instances of a particular option?

I'm not saying its necessarily a big problem, but it's surely more
work (we can argue how much more) to have to go through an entire
message to find all the related options before being able to actually
process them, compared with just processing them in order, without
doing any lookahead.

And for very simple clients, this kind of work savings might well be a
considered a good thing.

Thomas