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Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

"t.petch" <daedulus@btconnect.com> Tue, 18 January 2011 17:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Eggert" <lars.eggert@nokia.com>
To: "Spencer Dawkins" <spencer@wonderhamster.org>
Cc: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljitsch@muada.com>; "Phillip Hallam-Baker"
<hallam@gmail.com>; <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>; <ietf@ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:02 PM

On 2011-1-18, at 15:58, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
> Lars can speak for himself, but what I THOUGHT he was talking was changing the
phrase "unassigned" to something like "reserved for future assignment".

Exactly.

<tp>
Which, presumably, would be in a BCP updating RFC5226 which only allows for

  Private Use:
  Experimental:
  Reserved:  Not to be assigned.
  Unassigned: Unused and available for assignment via documented  procedures.

Tom Petch

</tp>

Lars

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