Re: Questions about draft-lear-iana-no-more-well-known-ports-00.txt

[David Conrad <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

On May 24, 2006, at 6:16 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
> This is not correct.  They do, indeed, assign values.

Yes.

> They also apply some minimal rules in doing so.

IANA does a basic sanity check and if there is any question as to  
whether a port should be allocated, we pass the request to an IESG  
Designated Expert who says yes or no.

> Squatting on unassigned values, while it does happen, is considered  
> to be in bad taste.

It is often disappointing to folks who have gone to the trouble to  
obtain a port to find out that nothing stops someone else from using  
the same port for a different protocol.

Rgds,
-drc



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