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

[Thomas Huth <THUTH at de.ibm.com>]

> Jarrod Johnson <jarrod.b.johnson+dhcwg at gmail.com> wrote on 12/10/2009
14:42:45:
>
> Anyway, perhaps with some specific recommendations, this draft should
> reference RFC4361 to ensure that firmware developers have this in mind
> and hopefully some standards get pushed in the correct places (just
> like iBFT exists to facilitate RFC4173).
>
> If appropriate, I have some thoughts on how it can be resolved to my
> satisfaction (but not Chuck's) and probably keep people who like the
> DUID moving with the hard drive happy:
[...]

Jarod,

thanks for this very interesting description. However, I also think our
draft is the wrong place to address these issues. Our draft should focus on
describing the new options, not the generic netboot process. For example,
we originally had a big chapter that discussed the advantages and
disadvantages of the various boot protocols (TFTP, HTTP, iSCSI), but we've
been told that this does not belong to an RFC document that describes new
DHCP options.

So if you want to discuss DUID usage, I'd suggest that you either create a
new draft for "netboot DUID best practices" which can be used as a basis
for this discussion, or that you try to address this issue on the
appropriate firmware/operating system mailing lists (e.g. the UEFI mailing
list about network booting), since most of the firmware / OS people might
not read this mailing list here.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,
   Thomas Huth
                                                                       
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