Re: [Emu] IANA allocation issue in EAP-FAST Documents

Bernard Aboba <bernard_aboba@hotmail.com> Thu, 05 February 2009 02:01 UTC

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Dan Harkins said: > draft-cam-winget-eap-fast-provisioning claims a reference to RFC 5226> but nowhere in that RFC can I find description of the following label> for an initial assignment of repository values:>> "allocated for management by Cisco">> yet the draft instructs IANA to set aside values 11-63 for just that> purpose. I think that's very inappropriate. Not only is it telling IANA> to cede some of its authority to a large multinational corporation but> it is decidedly *NOT* documenting existing use! If this whole exercise> is to document existing use then where are the specifications for these> PAC attribute types?Are you saying that the registry of "EAP-FAST PAC Attribute Types" also 
relates to RFC 4507, which is a standards track document?
 
If so, then I may see your point.  RFC 5226 does permit vendor-specific 
registries.  However, if the registry relates to a Standards Track protocol under
IETF change control, then restricting vendor-specific extensions to only one
vendor would be highly unusual.