Re: [Bier] Paul Wouters' Discuss on draft-ietf-bier-bar-ipa-12: (with DISCUSS)

[Alvaro Retana <[e-mail]>]

On April 18, 2022 at 3:27:27 PM, Alvaro Retana wrote:
> On April 18, 2022 at 2:47:15 PM, Paul Wouters wrote:


Paul:

Hi!

Roman's comment helped me understand your point -- sorry for missing it before.


> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > DISCUSS:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > [1]
> > This document could instruct IANA to rename "240-254 Experimental Use" to
> > "240-254 Private and Experimental Use", since that is what this document
> > states:
> >
> > If a BAR value is not specified in a RFC but only privately used for
> > a deployment, it MUST be within the "240-254 Experimental Use" range
> > of the registry.
...
> > Furthermore, the statement implies there are two different allocation types
> > here ("RFC" and "privately used"), but the IANA Registry shows 3 types:
> >
> > 0-127 Standards Action
> > 128-239 Specification Required
> > 240-254 Experimental Use
> >
> > The "Specification Required" could be a non-RFC specification.

Yes, we should clarify.

Suggestion>

   If a specification is not available for a specific BAR, its
   value MUST be from the Private and Experimental Use range of
   the registry.


Does that work for you?

Thanks!

Alvaro.