As we head toward interoperability of LTK Extension support between
the different LTK Toolkits, it occurs to me that things would be more
clear on the testing side if we reserve a few custom message and
subparameter IDs for testing within the llrp.org namespace (PEN).

We can use those to design interesting custom messages and parameters
which thoroughly exercise the extension infrastructure. This would
result in an extension def file, an xsd and corpus of LTK-XML message
instances, and analogous  binary encoded format.

Thoughts? The main thing is to come up with a set of fictitious custom
messages and parameters that really exercise LTK Extension support.


PEN conflict:

Note that if another organization donated some IDs under their PEN as
well, then we would also be in a position to test extension point
support for the case that a single reader supports extensions drawn
from multiple vendors.

Unfortunately it doesn't appear that the IANA reserved any PENs for
testing purposes, so using real ones with reserved ranges for this is
the only way I can see to 100% safely do this.

We could instead "borrow" numbers from the higher ranges since IANA
seems to grant them from low numbers up. It would be very unlikely
that we could ever conflict that way.

-- 
John R. Hogerhuis
http://devwrights.com/blog

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