Other information on the vendorfield paper note has to be transferred to the settings within specific application programs. Use with other protocols This protocol could be combined with avian carriers as described in RFC 1149 to hand out IP-numbers remote. At the first avian carrier, the peg is clipped to the leg of the carrier after rolling the additional vendorfield paper around it. The remote site can take the peg on arrival of the avian carrier and use the information on it. Some remarks about security can be made.
Pegs are small devices and can be lost.
At that time, the IP-number which was lost can't be used anymore because someone else can find the peg and use the information stored on it. But, once the peg is attached to a network cable, the chance to loose the peg is minimized. All the information on both the peg and on the additional 'fixed' fields on the paper record are plain text and readable for everyone. Private information should not be exchanged through this protocol. On the client side all sorts of clients exist and cooperate freely.