Le 29 avr. 2010 à 20:16, james woodyatt a écrit : > ... >>> I'd say there are two changes we should make to Section 6, IANA >>> Considerations, in the next revision: >>> >>> + instruct IANA to reserve GIEH sub-type values for experimental purposes >>> and cite RFC 3692. >>> >>> + instruct IANA to require a *separate* IETF standards action to allow >>> [new] IPv6 extension headers to be numbered from the assigned protocol >>> number database *before* assigning any such numbers to a new extension >>> header. > > If 6MAN takes this as a work item, then I think it will be a pointless > exercise without considering the second item in my list. > > When this document goes to publication, we want to make it very clear that > we're setting a standard that *all* new extension headers will use the GIEH > format unless and until we ever set a new standard that allows for exceptions > to be published. If we don't do that, then the value of having the GIEH is > lost.
Agreed: making this explicit rather than just implicit is IMHO a useful improvement. Regards, RD -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
