Re: OSI NSAPs and IPv6

Brian Carpenter CERN-CN <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch> Wed, 20 March 1996 16:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: OSI NSAPs and IPv6
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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:23:02 +0100
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From: Brian Carpenter CERN-CN <brian@dxcoms.cern.ch>
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Harald,

I've been looking into this with the interested parties (Juha
Heinanen and Yanick Pouffary - this is a very European topic
it seems).

The conclusion is that selectors in OSI and ATM don't need
to be centrally registered - that is simply not done, they
are always dynamically or locally assigned. Even if two different
applications specify the same values or the same defaults, this
is not considered a violation of anything.

Strange but true.

  Brian

>-------- Text sent by Brian Carpenter   CERN-CN follows:
> 
> Harald,
> 
> Good point. The draft I am trying oh so desparately to get out
> as Experimental specifies the field as zero, so it is decoupled.
> (I mean getting the guidelines set up is not a precondition
> for that publication.) But there should be guidelines. I'll
> try to finger somebody for this - it hardly needs a BOF though.
> 
>   Brian
> 
> >--------- Text sent by Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no follows:
> > 
> > Brian,
> > Jon and Joyce seem to have adopted a policy that they will register
> > anything, PROVIDED they have clear guidelines on what to accept, what
> > to reject, and when to allow changes.
> > The word "liability" is floating somewhere in the background......
> > 
> > In this particular case, the number space is even more limited than usual;
> > there are only 256 distinct numbers to choose from.
> > 
> > SOMEONE has to write the guidelines. Even if they are just "Brian Carpenter
> > approves each individual request based on his temper that morning", there
> > should be guidelines. Look at the mess we got into over MIME types and
> > character sets!
> > 
> > Whose job is it to make sure the guidelines are written?
> > 
> >            Harald A
> > 
> 
>

Re: OSI NSAPs and IPv6 Brian Carpenter CERN-CN
Re: OSI NSAPs and IPv6 Harald.T.Alvestrand