Subject: Re: [Idr] Working group adoption call for draft-snijders-idr-deprecate-30-31-129
From: Job Snijders <[email-masked]>
To: Robert Raszuk <[email-masked]>
Cc: IETF IDR Working Group <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 15:28:07 +0100
List-Id: Inter-Domain Routing <idr.ietf.org>

On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 03:17:30PM +0100, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> > An implementor should not be rewarded with the possibility of
> > laziness after they squat on a codepoint.
> 
> +
> 
> > I argue that we cannot tolerate:
> 
> Ahh got it.
> 
> So the point of the document is *punishment* for early attempts to
> implement anything not to technically address the problem at hand. Thx for
> clarification ...

Am I to understand that you consider deployment problems not to be
technical problems?

BGP Path attribute codepoints are a global, shared resources. As
Internet community we have vested IANA with the authority to assign
resources from this pool. The social contract is that we abide by the
rules related to IETF and IANA. The same rules we write ourselves.

Kind regards,

Job