RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit
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RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit
- To: "Syam Madanapalli" <smadanapalli at gmail.com>, <ipv6 at ietf.org>, <dhcwg at ietf.org>
- Subject: RE: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit
- From: "Bound, Jim" <jim.bound at hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:12:22 -0400
- Cc: Thomas Narten <narten at us.ibm.com>, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>, "Bernie Volz \(volz\)" <volz at cisco.com>, Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon at nominum.com>, "Ralph Droms \(rdroms\)" <rdroms at cisco.com>, jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
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- Thread-topic: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit
at least have discussion where all agree for sure. not clear a document
is needed if we can put it in dhc or possibly biz update to 2462 yet
again :----)
/jim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Syam Madanapalli [mailto:smadanapalli at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:41 PM
> To: ipv6 at ietf.org; dhcwg at ietf.org
> Cc: Ted Lemon; Bound, Jim; Iljitsch van Beijnum; Ralph Droms
> (rdroms); Bernie Volz (volz); Thomas Narten;
> jinmei at isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RE: purpose of m/o bit
>
> Isn't it such a long idscussion a proof for the confusion in
> understanding the M/O
> bits? Instead of leaving the discussion here, thinking that there is
> no confusion or
> be fore taking any radical changes (either discarding M or O
> or both flags, or
> making changes to the DHCPv6 protocols), it is better to
> document the inteded
> use of M/O flags as an informational document, so that we
> will have uniform
> implementations in th future. I am sure this (intended use of M/O
> flags) is very
> obvious for some people here, but definitely help many others. Also
> this information
> will be handy for the implementer.
>
> - Syam
>
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