Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 - how to proceed?

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

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon at nominum.com> wrote on 18/10/2009 23:55:00:

> On Oct 18, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > I think that such an option highjacking won't happen with DHCPv6
> > again:
> > Since we've got a "parameter option" in our draft already which can
> > be used
> > to pass such configuration data to the bootloader/kernel, there is
> > no more
> > need that they abuse extra DHCP options for this.
>
> Okay.   The draft doesn't really say that.   I think it would be worth
> saying that specifically, so that people realize that that is one
> valid use for these options.   Otherwise we may find that people think
> these serve some other purpose--it certainly didn't occur to me that
> this was what bootfile parameters were for, although now that you
> mention it I see no reason why they wouldn't work for this.

OK, but how would you call such parameters instead? For normal programs, I
would call them "command line options", but there is no command line at the
firmware level...

> So, assuming you make that clear in the draft, would you consider a
> draft that had just one bootfile-url option, and just one bootfile-
> parameters option to be useful?

We talked to a couple of people in the past days, and I think now yes, such
a one-option approach would be useful for most scenarios (and the others
can be solved by other means, like second stage bootloaders etc., just like
in the IPv4 world).
So since the multi-option idea rather caused confusion and/or dislike
instead of ardour, we're going to remove that and submit a new version of
our draft with just one bootfile- and parameter-option.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards,
   Thomas Huth
                                                                       
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