[Idr] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-capabilities-registry-change-08: (with COMMENT)

[Robert Wilton via Datatracker <[e-mail]>]

Robert Wilton has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-idr-capabilities-registry-change-08: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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This document is straight forward and easy to read and understand.  I had one
minor comment.

   [RFC5492] designates the range of Capability Codes 128-255 as
   "Reserved for Private Use".  Subsequent experience has shown this to
   be not only useless, but actively confusing to implementors.

It might possibly be helpful to expand this paragraph slightly.

Because what was once "Reserved for Private Use" is now being reclassified to
something non private, I presume that there are no BGP implementations using
these capability codes that could be broken by this reclassification.  Hence,
on the assumption that these codes are not in fact being used for private use,
it might be helpful to state that in order to help justify why it is okay to
make this change.