Far be it from me to get involved in a private pissing match, but... Owen wrote:
> Perhaps we should ask IETF/IANA to allocate a group of protocol numbers > to "the wild west". A protocol-number equivalent of RFC-1918 or private ASNs. > You can use these for whatever you want, but so can anyone else and if you > do, you do so at your own risk. > > This won't entirely solve the problem, but at least it would provide some > level of shield for protocol numbers that are registered to particular > purposes through the IETF/IANA process. Would that be 253 and 254 "Use for experimentation and testing" per RFC 3692? Of course, no-one like to see their pet protocol designated as an experiment (unless they really believe it is something that should be carefully researched and tried out in a controlled environment), but the garden-walling that you describe seems to fit exactly within the 3692 definitions. Adrian