Hello all, It is the opinion of the chairs and the editors that this is something worth fixing with IANA. We are using this email to make a call for any objections to this change at this stage. This call will run through May 11th. Please reply with any concerns or further discussion.
Thanks, QUIC Chairs On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 5:55 PM Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most of our registries reserve the short varint values (0x00-0x3f) for RFCs. > We didn't do that for transport parameters. > > Is there any reason why we should not ask IANA to change this? The RFC > editor noted the discrepancy and I can't say that it was deliberate. > > It is probably an accident. Remember that we only changed the format of > transport parameters fairly late in the process and so we probably missed > this when that happened. > > I would like to ask IANA to tweak the registry policies here, but that means > we need to be careful. Minimally, that means AD approval (Hi Zahed). > > See https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/issues/4880 for an issue. > > https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/4887/commits/7e4f0f1ee11db09d7bda5617de51ec06f1b34d24 > does this (it's attached to https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/pull/4887 > but that pulls in other changes). >
