Re: you have running code ... I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-03.txt

["Bjoern A. Zeeb" <[e-mail]>]

On 31 Oct 2018, at 19:45, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

>>>>> What OS vendor will go next?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> IANA better allocate the bit first.
>>>
>>> Yes, that's an interesting chicken/egg issue since there is no
>>> designated experimental/local use bit. But hard to avoid if people
>>> want running code before Proposed Standard.
>>>
>>
>> Regardless if this document is published and any misgivings anyone 
>> has, I
>> think we need to have IANA allocate the code point to this purpose 
>> NOW!  We
>> asked to have running code, we now have some, it is extremely 
>> dangerous to
>> have code out in the wild without some level of an official 
>> designation of
>> the code point.
>>
>> I'm not sure of the procedure, but for all effective purposes if we 
>> expect
>> there to be more running code we had better officially designate the 
>> code
>> point.
>
> There is a procedure for requesting early allocation, and of course an 
> allocation
> can always be rescinded later. Whether there's any real practical risk 
> is a
> judgment call.

I’d suggest finalise the draft and get the RFC out and not complicate 
matters by diverting energy to sort the bit out.  If we sort the bit out 
it almost means that we want this draft to go out as an RFC, so get it 
out :-)


/bz