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

Alvaro Retana <aretana.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 04 May 2020 10:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Robert Wilton's No Objection on draft-ietf-idr-capabilities-registry-change-08: (with COMMENT)
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On May 4, 2020 at 5:40:34 AM, Robert Wilton wrote:


Rob:

Hi!


> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.

There *are* implementations using the code points on that range.  The
WG has carefully surveyed implementations and is deprecating the known
values (Table 2).


Thanks!

Alvaro.

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