Re: [Int-area] Existing use of IP protocol 114 (any 0-hop protocol)

Where do they want to use this, and why not request a new protocol value?

(What did iana@iana.org say?)

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 08:07, Eric Vyncke (evyncke) <evyncke@cisco.com>
wrote:

> The authors of https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-zhu-intarea-gma-03.txt
> would like to use IP protocol 114 as it is described as “Any 0-hop
> protocol” on the IANA page[1]. Alas, on the IANA page, there is no
> reference to this “Any 0-hop protocol”.
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> Obviously, we all understand that this must be a protocol using hop limit
> = 0 (or TTL=0 for the legacy protocol).
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> When there is no reference for a IANA number, this means that this number
> was assigned _*before*_ IANA, possibly by J. Postel and nobody at IANA
> and in the IESG know more. Hence, my questions to the community:
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> Q1) does anyone know about a more formal reference / specification for
> this protocol 114
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> Q2) does anyone know about a RFC or a protocol using this protocol 114 ?
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> Please note that I do not ask for comments/reviews on the draft itself
> (they are welcome though on the int-area@ietf.org mailing list even if
> this is not a WG document). And it is also mostly obvious that only one
> transport layer can exist on the top of this protocol.
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> Regards,
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>
> -éric (INT AD)
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> [1]
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xhtml
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