>> But in any case, I don't see ftp, name service, or telnet as protocols
>> likely implemented directly by the boot blocks (or other standalone
>> programs) or the kernel.
>This is starting to digress heavily, but I can definitely see wanting
>DNS resolution before the kernel is loaded, allowing the user to type
>in the hostname of the server holding the boot kernel.

	do you assume that there's no bootp/rpc.bootparamd servers?
	is it something like this?

	boot> boot ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/foo/bar/baz/netbsd.gz

itojun