Phillip, > My personal view is that we should develop an Internet architecture that > allows an infinite number of new protocols to be deployed without consumption > of scarce resources, i.e. port numbers of DNS RRs. ... > So in summary, the IAB should be charged with identifying the set of finite > resources that IANA assigns and propose an Internet architecture in which > deployment of new application layer protocols does not cause any of the > finite resources to be depleted. >
I'm definitely in favor of improving the situation. And for applications protocols this is probably an easier problem to begin with. And as I said in the previous e-mail, as far as I know, most new work uses field sizes and types that have less scarcity. However, the Internet runs to a large extent on protocols that were designed decades ago, and some of those protocols have number spaces that are very finite. I don't want to run out of protocol numbers, DHCP message types, etc. Jari _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
