RE: Draft IESG Statement Regarding Ethertype Requests

["Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <[e-mail]>]

(I hope not to open some Pandora box or a long thread - my goal is to
make sure there is clarity in the language of the statement)

What 'IETF protocol specification' means here? 

Pretty clear it covers protocols defined in IETF standards-track
documents. 

Does it also cover protocols defined (described) in Informational RFCs
which are part of the IETF stream? 

Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:ietf-announce-
> [e-mail]] On Behalf Of IETF Chair
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 7:40 PM
> To: IETF Announce
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> Subject: Draft IESG Statement Regarding Ethertype Requests
> 
> Last week the IAB and the IESG met with the leadership of IEEE 802.
One
> of the things that was discussed was the IEEE policies for allocating
> EtherTypes, and the IESG is considering the attached IESG Statement to
> implement an IETF policy that aligns with the IEEE policy.
> 
> If you have an comments on this proposed policy, please raise them on
> [e-mail].
> 
> Russ
> 
> = = = = = =
> 
> The IEEE Registration Authority Committee (RAC) assigns Ethertypes.
> (See http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/ethertype/.)  Some IETF
> protocol specification make use of Ethertypes.  Since Ethertypes are a
> fairly scarce resource, the IEEE RAC will not assign an Ethertype to a
> new IETF protocol specification that needs a new Ethertype until the
> IESG has approved the specification for publication as an RFC.
> 
> To let the IEEE RAC know that the IESG has approved an IETF protocol
> specification for publication, all future requests for assignment of
> Ethertypes for IETF protocol specifications will be made by the IESG.
> 
> Note that playpen Ethertypes have been assigned in IEEE 802 [1] for
use
> during development and experimentation.
> 
> 
> [1] IEEE Std 802a-2003 (Amendment to IEEE Std 802-2001).
>     IEEE standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks:
>     Overview and Architecture -- Amendment 1: Ethertypes for
>     Prototype and Vendor-Specific Protocol Development.