> Does the community feel that operators need RA bits that
> control/indicate whether a client is to invoke DHC? That is, is there
> a need for the sys admin to signal to client whether DHC is to be
> invoked?
YES
> Second, is it important that such a signal be honored by clients?
> (That is, if clients end up mostly ignoring the flags, does their
> presence become useless?)
YES
> If we can't agree that the above is necessary (i.e., is a "problem
> statement" of sorts), I really have to wonder what purpose the R/A
> bits can serve or whether we will ever have a shared understanding of
> what they are supposed to do. Having them be a hint (that clients in
> practice ignore half the time) would seem to solve no useful purpose
> (IMO) and would provide the sys admin with useless tools (since
> clients wouldn't respond to the usage of the tool in predicatable
> ways). The result would simply be more confusion. (Oh, that is already
> the state we are in!!! :-))
I don't think we (folks) do not agree on above necessary. We may
need more simplified method to achieve above than now.
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Daniel (Soohong Daniel Park)
Mobile Platform Laboratory, SAMSUNG Electronics.
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