Re: [tcpm] IANA TCP options registry

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

Hi, Fernando,

Fernando Gont wrote:
> (note: this post has nothing to do with the recent poll on whether the
> TCP MD5 option should be obsoleted)
> 
> Folks,
> 
> The IANA TCP options registry
> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/tcp-parameters/) lacks of valuable
> information. e.g., you need to figure out by yourself what the "Bubba"
> option is (or what it is used for), and missing references (e.g., for
> options #20 through #23 are missing).

Some of that information might be solicited found elsewhere, e.g.,
[e-mail] ;-)

> Al this was particularly painful when working on the CPNI TCP security
> document. I ended up using an unofficial revised registry posted by
> Alfred (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tcpm/current/msg03199.html)
> which is, IMO, far better than the current IANA registry.
> 
> What'd be the procedure to have Alfred's registry replace the current
> one? (i.e., have most/all of the information there make it into the
> "official" IANA registry).

Ask IANA ([e-mail]). I don't think this really requires any
particular policy stuff - some of that info isn't there because it just
wasn't known when the page was created.

Joe