Re: [Idr] Requesting WG adoption for draft-scudder-idr-capabilities-registry-change-02.txt

Makes sense. Support!

Gaurav

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> On Sep 19, 2018, at 11:10 PM, John Scudder <jgs@juniper.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> People with sharp memories may recall that in 2015 I proposed we revise the BGP Capabilities registry to provide a good-sized FCFS space. I think our experience shows this works fine in practice and makes it easier for implementors to get code points in a timely fashion, helping prevent conflicts. I wrote a draft at that time but failed to follow it up. I've revised the draft and would like to propose it as a WG item. Here's the abstract:
> 
>   This document updates RFC 5492 by making a change to the registration
>   procedures for BGP Capability Codes.  Specifically, the range
>   formerly designated "Reserved for Private Use" is divided into three
>   new ranges, respectively designated as "First Come First Served",
>   "Experimental" and "Reserved".
> 
> One thing to draw your attention to in the revised draft:
> 
>   Finally, we invite implementors who have used values in the range
>   128-255 to contribute to this draft, so that the values can be
>   included in the registry.
> 
> That is, if you have a shipped implementation that's using one of the Private Use values, please contribute that information to the draft and (assuming the draft progresses) you'll automatically get a registered code point.
> 
> https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-scudder-idr-capabilities-registry-change-02.txt
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --John (an individual contributor to the WG, and recusing myself as co-chair from the adoption and subsequent process)
> 
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