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Re: [rtcweb] RTCWEB Data Channel: Usage of PPID for protocol multiplexing

Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> Thu, 06 February 2014 20:47 UTC

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On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Christer Holmberg <christer.holmberg@ericsson.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>>>>> I hope that if values are retained simply for backward compatibility they are explicitly marked as deprecated.
>>>> My plan was just not to defined what they are used for...
>>> 
>>> I would like to have some explanation text. Having registered values without any kind of explanation is not a good approach, in my opinion.
>> The reason why I registered them is that they are used by Firefox and there was
>> the possibility that the PPID based fragmentation and reassembly got
>> standardised. I wanted to avoid the case that Firefox uses some values
>> and other protocols register these values. That would have been pretty
>> bad. Since they are a very cheap resource, I just went ahead and "saved"
>> the values.
> 
> That is a all good. But, when people wonder 5 years from now, I don't want them to have to look for this e-mail in oder to get an explanation :)
Understood. But do you think they walk through the IANA registry? I would expect them
to read RFCs and follow the procedures described there.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christer
> 
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