Re: [dtn-interest] IANA registry for LTP (and the BP?)

Ok, so that got a stunning response - guess registries aren't
what get people here excited, which is fair enough:-)

But the IANA folks've now asked as well, so we need some
kind of answer.

Assuming no further input, I'm going to propose that we
ask IANA to set up LTP registries for the extension types and
ciphersuites, with the update rule for both being "specification
required" where the specification can be an RFC (of any type)
or any other SDO's publicly available specification (wording
for that might be tricky so we might get reduced to needing
an RFC).

I'll ask them to do that tomorrow, so yell now if it's a problem.
We can address the BP registry issues later.

Stephen.

Stephen Farrell wrote:
> The comment we got about LTP extensions was:
> 
>  > An IANA registry for LTP extension values seems appropriate. Since
>  > [LTPSPEC] does not establish one, it should probably happen here to
>  > assign the two values used here and have a place to register more.
>  >
>  > Since the extension space is small, I recommend expert review as the
>  > policy for new assignments.
> 
> I think (anyone know for sure?) that the relevant guidelines here
> are BCP 26. [1]
> 
> So the questions are whether or not to do this for LTP extensions
> (and maybe ciphersuites) and secondly for extensible bits of the
> BP (block types, ciphersuites, anything else?).
> 
> And if we do want any IANA registries, then what rules should
> we adopt for updates?
> 
> I guess there is the possibility that CCSDS's DTN group might
> want to extend LTP and/or the BP, so maybe it is a good idea
> for us to think about this now. If anyone knows of other groups
> that might want to create their own extensions or blocks that'd
> be useful input here too.
> 
> As I said in the other mail, my plan for LTP would be to create
> a new draft-irtf-dtnrg-ltp-iana to document whatever it is we
> think is the right thing to do. (If anyone wants to take on
> doing that, let Kevin and I know.)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Stephen.
> 
> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp26
> 
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