Re: [Int-area] GUE: IANA Considerations question

Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Wed, 23 October 2019 14:46 UTC

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From: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 07:46:24 -0700
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To: Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Int-area] GUE: IANA Considerations question
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:44 AM Greg Mirsky <gregimirsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Authors, et al.,
> I have a rather benign question the new registry requested in Section 8.3. The draft states that the whole 1-127 range is "RFC required" per RFC 5226. Firstly, a nit - RFC 5226 has been obsoleted by RFC 8126. My question is Would you agree to split the 128-255 range and set First Come First Served sub-range. For example:
>
>       +----------------+------------------+---------------+
>       |  Control type  | Description      | Reference     |
>       +----------------+------------------+---------------+
>       | 0              | Control payload  | This document |
>       |                | needs more       |               |
>       |                | context for      |               |
>       |                | interpretation   |               |
>       |                |                  |               |
>       | 1..127         | Unassigned       |               |
>       |                |                  |               |
>       | 128..250       | First Come       | RFC 8126      |
>       |                | First Served     |               |
>       | 251..254       | Experimental     | This document |
>       |                |                  |               |
>       | 255            | Reserved         | This document |
>       |                |                  |               |
>       +----------------+------------------+---------------+
>
> Also, you may consider updating 0 as Reserved and assigning 1 as Control payload ...
> Much appreciate your consideration.

Greg,

My immediate question is would this encourage people to develop quasi
proprietary control types? (which they would probably do anyway in
using experimental values but wouldn't acknowledged by IANA).

Tom
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>