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From: Black_David@emc.com
To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
Subject: iSCSI boot draft - informal WG Last Call
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:30:40 -0400
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While not strictly required, let's do an IPS Working Group
Last Call on the iSCSI Boot Draft:

	Title		: Bootstrapping Clients using the iSCSI Protocol
	Author(s)	: P. Sarkar, D. Missimer, C. Sapuntzakis
	Filename	: draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-boot-10.txt

This WG Last Call will close on Wednesday, July 16th.  Editorial
comments can be sent directly to the primary author, Prasenjit
Sarkar <psarkar@almaden.ibm.com> ; technical comments should be
posted to this list.

Please focus on the new security text, but if anything
else is found, it's better to catch it here than in a second
IETF Last Call.  It's already been pointed out that the text
on how dual stack (IPv4/IPv6) systems acquire their IP addresses
is overspecified, and should be removed in favor of other
specifications that address that area directly.  That would
involve removal of the following paragraph in Section 5:

   An iSCSI boot client which does not know its IP address at power-on
   may acquire its IP address via DHCP.  An iSCSI boot client which is
   capable of using both DHCPv6 and DHCPv4 should first attempt to use
   DHCPv6 to obtain its IP address, falling back on DHCPv4 in the event
   of failure.

Thanks,
--David (for David and Elizabeth, IPS WG co-chairs)

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