Re: [Idr] Martin Duke's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-com-registry-03: (with DISCUSS)

Alvaro Retana <aretana.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 22 November 2021 15:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Idr] Martin Duke's Discuss on draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ext-com-registry-03: (with DISCUSS)
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On November 19, 2021 at 5:48:38 PM, Martin Duke wrote:

Martin:

Hi!


> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> DISCUSS:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I'm having trouble seeing how we got here; this registry architecture is
> hard to understand, and past actions appear to violate RFC 3692.
>
> 1. RFC7153 designated 0x80-0x8f as experimental and then immediately defines
> 0x80 as the gateway to a further subregistry of FCFS/IETF review codepoints.
> This does not appear to be "Reserved for Experimental Use" in the RFC 3692
> sense, in that it is not meant to be used only by explicit experiments. (It's a
> standards track document).
>
> 2. RFC8955 compounds it by taking another 2 (of 15 remaining!) experimental
> codepoints in a standards-track document, for a similar purpose.
>
> I agree with this draft's reclassification of the 3 codepoints, as it
> recognizes reality that they are apparently no longer safe for RFC 3692
> experiments. But I would also like to verify that this behavior will not
> continue: future standards-track allocations, including those pointing to
> more subtypes ("Part 4", etc), will draw from the FCFS range, not
> Experimental.
>
> Furthermore, experiments (with a draft or not) that use one of these
> experimental codepoints should be reassigned a FCFS codepoint if they move
> to Standards track.

That is the intent.  The allocation process has been followed for
other BGP-related registries, and I'm sure the WG will continue to do
so.

We can't unfortunately go back and correct how the assignments were
made to rfc5575 (which seems to have been the origin of this whole
issue) -- so we are (finally!) cleaning it up.


Alvaro.