Re: [babel] No experimental range in the AE registry

Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@iki.fi> Thu, 12 March 2020 19:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [babel] No experimental range in the AE registry
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On 12 Mar 2020, at 18.54, Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> wrote:
> Théo (in copy of this mail) and myself are currently working on an
> exciting new extension to the protocol, which Théo will describe in
> another mail.  We have just realised that we have a problem: there's no
> experimental range in the AE registry.
> 
> I therefore propose to reserve the AE range 224-254 for experimental use
> in the next revision of rfc6126bis.  Any objections?  Donald, is that okay
> at this stage?

Sounds like a good idea to me; in general private use / experimental ranges should be in pretty much any protocol to decrease likelihood of prototyping conflicting later on with IANA assignments.

-Markus