Re: [Idr] New BGP capability to advertise running daemon version

[Job Snijders <[e-mail]>]

Dear Donatas,

Welcome to IDR! 

On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:07:43AM +0300, Donatas Abraitis wrote:
> The implementation and details are posted in this draft:
> https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-abraitis-bgp-version-capability-00.txt
> 
> Waiting for comments.

I won't comment on the idea itself, but I note the following text in
your document:

    "IANA has assigned capability number 74 for the Version Capability
    described in this document.  This registration is in the BGP
    Capability Codes registry." 

Looking at https://www.iana.org/assignments/capability-codes/capability-codes.xhtml
I see that this is not the case, which means that the draft is
'squatting' on capability number 74, making it harder for anyone in the
future to actually use number 74 when IANA assigns it to someone.

Please update your draft ASAP to read as following:

    "IANA is requested to assign a capability number for the Version
    Capability in this document from the BGP Capabilities Codes
    registry."

The IANA registries are not self-service "pick what you want", but
fortunately most of them allow allocation of code points through a
simple procedure. Please follow the process the group agreed upon.
I recommend reading https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7120

It is critical for interopability (not just for this draft, but also
future unrelated BGP drafts) that we ensure codepoints are assigned by
the IANA; in cases where this didn't happen, the codepoints often are
marked as 'deprecated', see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8093 as an
example.

Kind regards,

Job