Re: [Int-area] impacts to other specifications from draft-arkko-arp-iana-rules

["Donald Eastlake" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Dave Thaler
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Re "Requests for new ar$op values are made through IETF Review or IESG
> Approval"
>
> Who decides which of these two is required?  I assume it's the IESG,
> but would be good to clarify.

My understanding of that sort of wording is that the applicant get to
decide which path they want to try. (These paths are further
documented at http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226#page-11 )

Donald

> Otherwise, looks ok to me.
>
> -Dave
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
>> Behalf Of Jari Arkko
>> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:33 PM
>> To: Internet Area
>> Cc: Russ Housley
>> Subject: [Int-area] impacts to other specifications from draft-arkko-
>> arp-iana-rules
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>> As you recall, I recently wrote a draft about the IANA rules regarding
>> ARP, as no such rules were defined before.
>>
>> During last call, it became apparent that there are a few other
>> protocols that use the same numbers. For instance, specialized forms of
>> ARP for certain link layers or DHCPv4/6. Having realized this, we did a
>> more thorough search of the RFC series to attempt to find all such
>> uses.
>> The new version of my draft lists all these uses and updates the RFCs
>> in
>> question.
>>
>> I would like to ask for your review to make sure (a) that the ARP rule
>> change is OK from the perspective of your protocol and (b) we have
>> found
>> all uses of the ARP numbers. Here's what the draft says:
>>
>> "The change is also applicable to extensions of ARP that use the same
>> message format, such as [RFC0903], [RFC1931], and [RFC2390].
>>
>> The change also affects other protocols that employ values from the ARP
>> name spaces.  For instance, the ARP hardware address type (ar$hrd)
>> number space is also used in the "htype" (hardware address type) fields
>> in Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) [RFC0951] and Dynamic Host Configuration
>> Protocol (DHCP) [RFC2131], as well as in the "hardware type" field in
>> the DHCP Unique Identifiers in DHCPv6 [RFC3315]. These protocols are
>> therefore affected by the update in the IANA rules.  Other affected
>> specifications include the specialized address resolution mechanisms in
>> HYPERchannel [RFC1044], DHCP options [RFC2132], [RFC4361], ATM
>> (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) ARP [RFC2225], HARP (High-Performance
>> Parallel Interface ARP) [RFC2834], [RFC2835], Dual MAC FDDI (Fiber
>> Distributed Data Interface) ARP [RFC1329], MAPOS (Multiple Access
>> Protocol over Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital
>> Hierarchy)
>> ARP [RFC2176], FC (Fibre Channel) ARP [RFC4338], and DNS Resource
>> Records [RFC4701]."
>>
>> (We have only listed a protocol as affected when uses ARP values
>> directly, e.g., in its own protocol message formats. Use of ARP as-is
>> is
>> of course not an issue. I have also not listed the many IP over Foo
>> specifications that talk about how to use ARP in Foo, describing what
>> hardware type values to use, etc.)
>>
>> Here's the URL for the draft:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-arkko-arp-iana-rules-04
>>
>> Jari
>>
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