Re: WG ACTION: 2 weeks to discuss [LL63] Text could be more specific

>   Field experience has shown that modifying the DHCP state machine
>   in an attempt to make IPv4 Link-Local more reliable does not work
>   - reliability of DHCP service is significantly reduced.

I have no objection to giving our best known advice:

>    A device that implements both IPv4 Link-Local and a DHCPv4 client
>    should not alter  the behavior of the DHCPv4 client to accommodate

My objection is to inventing fictitious "early implementations" or "field 
experience" to apparently back up our advice.

This is strangely topical -- the US president and the US and UK 
governments are taking a lot of criticism right now for the alleged 
fabrication of supporting evidence to justify their chosen course of 
action.

What is this claimed "field experience"? Is it a pure fiction?

Stuart Cheshire <[email protected]>
 * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Computer, Inc.
 * www.stuartcheshire.org