Re: [Int-area] Procedure for obtaining Ethertypes

[Bob Hinden <[e-mail]>]

Don,

Adding a procedure describing how to obtain an Ethertype for IETF work seems reasonable to me as well.

Bob


> On Nov 10, 2022, at 12:24 PM, Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> During the INTAREA WG meeting yesterday, there was a desire expressed
> to include in the rfc7042bis draft an explicit process, from the IETF
> side, for applying to the IEEE Registration Authority for an Ethertype
> assignment. This seems pretty reasonable. The rfc7042bis draft does
> include the IESG Statement requiring IESG approval before such
> applications but does not make it clear just who talks to who inside
> the IETF and who actually does the clerical work to apply to the IEEE
> Registration Authority for an Ethertype assignment after IESG
> approval.
> 
> Thinking about this, it seems to me that you want one point person who
> normally does the application process. This should be a position that
> has low turnover so that the person in that position is likely to have
> some experience doing this. The two possibilities that occur to me are
> (1) the IETF 802.1 Liaison (currently Eric Gray) or (2) the Expert for
> the IANA Informational Ethertype Registry (currently me). (I have been
> through the Ethertype assignment process for an IETF protocol several
> times.)
> 
> The IESG Statement (see
> https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/ethertypes/)
> requires IESG approval and, as I recall, the last time this happened,
> after the IESG had approved, the IESG was unclear on what to do next
> but their first inclination was to tell IANA to do the application to
> the IEEE Registration Authority. This seems natural as IANA is who you
> would think of when it comes to assignments. And IANA maintains
> contact with their registry experts. While this probably doesn't
> matter at a practical level, considering the liaison alternative, the
> IETF does not seems to currently have a liaison to IEEE 802.1 while
> the IEEE Registration Authority is not at the IEEE 802.1 or the IEEE
> 802 level but rather at the IEEE level .
> 
> Any comments welcome but, based on the above, I'm inclined to draft
> some text based on the point person doing the clerical work of
> actually applying to the IEEE Registration Authority being the IANA
> Ethertype Informational Registry expert (actual Registry name "IEEE
> 802 Numbers"). Of course, whoever it is, they could have someone else
> do it on their behalf in any particular instance but they would be
> responsible to see that it gets done.
> 
> Thanks,
> Donald
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