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William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> Thu, 01 April 2010 12:27 UTC

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Cc: Alfred HÎnes <ah@TR-Sys.de>, "tcpm@ietf.org" <tcpm@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [tcpm] IANA TCP options registry ...
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On 4/1/10 4:36 AM, Alexander Zimmermann wrote:
>> Section 10 is pretty clear, in that RFC5690 is for limited experimentation only at this time and hence no separate option numbers will be assigned. Experimenters are supposed to use the normal TCP option numbers set aside for general experimentation (253/254) when playing with this proposal:
>
> this could be funny in Linux. You request ACKcc as TCP sender (option 253)
> and get Mr. Simpson's TCP Cookie Transactions back ;-)
>
Haven't seen that (RFC5690) so far, but there's somebody else using 253 and
another somebody using 254 in deployed code!  There are earlier messages on
this list about the culprits.

Last year's Linux code used the experimental numbers and followed the usual
procedures (you have to explicitly turn it on with a sysctl or sockopt),
but the conflicts were quickly obvious.  Don't turn it on outside your lab.

The only reason that I've bothered putting up the internet-draft is to get
official IANA assignments.  I'd sent in the reservation back in November,
but IANA refused to send it to IESG for approval without an internet-draft.
Unfortunately, IESG has been *terribly* slow to act.

Unlike certain commercial interests, I'm trying to avoid conflicts.  But
next time, I'll not bother.  IETF officialdom has become too ossified.

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