Re: Please review documens on IESG Agenda for January 19, 2006

["C. M. Heard" <heard@pobox.com>]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
> MIB doctors, as always, pls review and send me comments
> by wednesday Jan 18th.
...
>   o draft-ietf-dhc-pxe-options-02.txt
>     DHCP Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) Options (Informational) - 4 of 4 
>     Note: The PROTO Shepherd for this document is Ralph Droms 
>     <rdroms@cisco.com>. 
>     Token: Margaret Wasserman

The above document says:

   As options 128-135 are not officially assigned for PXE use (previous
   to November 2004 they were considered site-specific options, [6]),
   use of these options may conflict with other uses of these options.

A good question to ask would be:  if no conflicting uses have surfaced,
why not request assignment of these options?  Reference [6] is RFC
3942, which says:

   4. For those options in the "Tentatively Assigned" state, vendors
      have 18 months following this RFC's publication date to submit an
      Internet-Draft documenting the option.  The documented usage MUST
      be consistent with the existing usage.  When the option usage is
      published as an RFC, IANA will move the option to the "Assigned"
      state.

//cmh