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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:12:14 -0800
From: Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU>
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To: Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar>
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Cc: "tcpm-chairs@tools.ietf.org" <tcpm-chairs@tools.ietf.org>,
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Subject: Re: [tcpm] IANA TCP options registry
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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)
>=20
> Folks,
>=20
> 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.,
internet-history@postel.org ;-)

> 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.
>=20
> 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 (iana@iana.org). 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



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