Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-04-08 Thread Alvaro Retana
Dear lsr-chairs: It looks like the conversation about this topic has died down. Can you please close the discussion and tell us if the WG reached a consensus and what that is? As you know, this topic started because of my comments related to draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions. The authors have

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-22 Thread Loa Andersson
.org; draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensi...@ietf.org; John Scudder ; lsr@ietf.org *Subject:* Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Tony – I hope I can be forgiven for one more post on this subject. In any case, here it is. First, at the risk of some repetition, I want to emphasize that th

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-22 Thread Aijun Wang
Ginsberg (ginsberg) Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 2:37 PM To: Tony Li Cc: Christian Hopps ; Alvaro Retana ; lsr-cha...@ietf.org; draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensi...@ietf.org; John Scudder ; lsr@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Tony – I hope I can be forgiven

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-22 Thread Christian Hopps
e creation > of such registries bear closer scrutiny. Just my opinion of course… > > Thanx (again) for listening. > > Les > > > From: Tony Li On Behalf Of Tony Li > Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2021 8:24 AM > To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) > Cc: Alvaro Retana ; >

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-22 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
Hopps ; lsr-cha...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Les, IMO, there is no need for registries for the first category. The WG has been alive for over 20 years, defined many new TLVs with flags fields, and I am not aware of any confusion – so if it ain’t broke don’t fix

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-19 Thread bruno.decraene
Scudder ; Christian Hopps ; lsr-cha...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Speaking as WG member: Hi Les, My opinion is there is no harm and some advantage in having IANA registries for unique IGP protocol bit flag fields. For the existing fields that don’t have

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-18 Thread Gyan Mishra
g) ; Tony Li < > tony...@tony.li> > *Cc:* Christian Hopps ; Alvaro Retana < > aretana.i...@gmail.com>; lsr-cha...@ietf.org; > draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensi...@ietf.org; John Scudder < > j...@juniper.net>; lsr@ietf.org > *Subject:* Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Regis

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-18 Thread Aijun Wang
Retana ; lsr-cha...@ietf.org; draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensi...@ietf.org; John Scudder ; lsr@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Speaking as WG member: Hi Les, My opinion is there is no harm and some advantage in having IANA registries for unique IGP protocol

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-18 Thread Acee Lindem (acee)
is-srv6-extensi...@ietf.org" , "lsr@ietf.org" , John Scudder , Christian Hopps , "lsr-cha...@ietf.org" Subject: RE: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Resent-From: Resent-To: Acee Lindem , Yingzhen Qu , Christian Hopps Resent-Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 1

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-18 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
is an IANA Registry Required Les, IMO, there is no need for registries for the first category. The WG has been alive for over 20 years, defined many new TLVs with flags fields, and I am not aware of any confusion – so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. With all due respect Les, you appear

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-18 Thread Tony Li
Les, > IMO, there is no need for registries for the first category. The WG has been > alive for over 20 years, defined many new TLVs with flags fields, and I am > not aware of any confusion – so if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. With all due respect Les, you appear to operate with an eidetic

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-18 Thread tom petch
From: Lsr on behalf of Tony Li Sent: 17 March 2021 20:56 Les, [Les:] The question here is whether there is a qualitative difference between two classes of bit fields. That is indeed the key question. IMHO, there is not. I don’t much care if a field is updated by a bis document or a related

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Gyan Mishra
nsi...@ietf.org; lsr@ietf.org; John Scudder < > j...@juniper.net>; Christian Hopps ; lsr-cha...@ietf.org > *Subject:* Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required > > > > > > Les, > > > > > > [Les:] The question here is whether there is a qualitative d

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
Retana ; draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensi...@ietf.org; lsr@ietf.org; John Scudder ; Christian Hopps ; lsr-cha...@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Les, [Les:] The question here is whether there is a qualitative difference between two classes of bit fields

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Tony Li
Les, > [Les:] The question here is whether there is a qualitative difference between > two classes of bit fields. That is indeed the key question. IMHO, there is not. I don’t much care if a field is updated by a bis document or a related document. Regardless of the cause, as soon as there

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
..@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required > > > > > I don't know that you and I are getting anywhere. I know Robert also > > cares about this topic, I hope others do too. > > > I care. > > It seems to me that we have registrie

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Tony Li
> I don't know that you and I are getting anywhere. I know Robert also > cares about this topic, I hope others do too. I care. It seems to me that we have registries where we have different documents allocating values from the same space. This makes sense: we need to coordinate things.

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Alvaro Retana
On March 17, 2021 at 12:25:25 PM, Les Ginsberg wrote: > > In the extreme case anyone can make use of the bits, through the ISE > > or a different SDO -- ideally we will be paying attention, but may > > not. Sure, a registry doesn't stop implementations from squatting on > > codepoints either

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
Alvaro - Inline. > -Original Message- > From: Alvaro Retana > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 7:04 AM > To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) ; draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6- > extensi...@ietf.org > Cc: John Scudder ; lsr-cha...@ietf.org; lsr@ietf.org; > Christian Hopps > Subject: RE: When is an IANA

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Alvaro Retana
On March 16, 2021 at 6:24:22 PM, Les Ginsberg wrote: Les: Hi! > But one thing I find missing in your response is some info on what problem > YOU think needs to be addressed? I simply think that the specifications are not complete without guidance on how to use/assign the unused bits.  I

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-17 Thread Robert Raszuk
ink it is the other way round – they look at drafts/RFCs and > only look at registries when the document points to them.  > > > > Les > > > > > > *From:* Robert Raszuk > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:46 PM > *To:* Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) > *C

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-16 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
– they look at drafts/RFCs and only look at registries when the document points to them.  Les From: Robert Raszuk Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2021 4:46 PM To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) Cc: Alvaro Retana ; lsr@ietf.org; Christian Hopps Subject: Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required Hi Les

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-16 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Les, I would like to share my personal experience that when debugging network issues say using wireshark or tcpdump often dissectors only decode what is in IANA registry. Anything beyond they print as hex. Sure if someone needs to decode it he or she will find an RFC where all fields are

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-16 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
Alvaro - Thanx - as always - for the thoughtful response. I would like to state up front that I would never consider you to be a "casual reader".  I am also glad you are opening this topic up to comments from others - that was my intent as well. But one thing I find missing in your

Re: [Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-03-16 Thread Alvaro Retana
On February 27, 2021 at 12:57:12 PM, Les Ginsberg wrote: Les: Hi! Sorry for the delay... §4/rfc8126 presents some general arguments for creating registries. But let's talk about this specific case. I'm taking the liberty of summarizing your message this way: > Historically, we have created

[Lsr] When is an IANA Registry Required

2021-02-27 Thread Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
Alvaro - In your review of draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions you requested the authors to "Please ask IANA to set up a registry for the Flags." in multiple cases e.g., the flags field defined in the new SRv6 Capabilities sub-TLV. This isn't the first time you have made such a