On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 12:44 PM Pablo Camarillo (pcamaril)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> I agree with your suggestion. What do you think of the following text?
>
I think it's good. This probably will also be useful in other contexts
(in GUE for instance).

Tom

> <OLD>
>    9.  IANA Considerations
>
>
>       This document requests the following new IANA registries:
> </OLD>
>
> <NEW>
>    9.  IANA Considerations
>
> This document requests IANA to allocate a new IP Protocol Number value for 
> “Opaque” with the following definition:
> The value TBD in the Next Header field of an IPv6 header or any extension 
> header indicates that the payload is interpreted via a semantics previously 
> established between the source and destination.
>
>       This document requests the following new IANA registries:
> </NEW>
>
> Any feedback or other text proposal is welcome.
>
> Many thanks,
> Pablo.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 21:12
> To: "Pablo Camarillo (pcamaril)" <[email protected]>
> Cc: SPRING WG <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming: NH=59 action item 
> closure
>
>     On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:02 AM Pablo Camarillo (pcamaril)
>     <[email protected]> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > Following the comments from IETF105, the working group preferred to 
> allocate a new Next Header value.
>     >
>     > The authors would like to propose this diff. Any feedback is welcome.
>     >
>     > <OLD>
>     >
>     >    9.  IANA Considerations
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >       This document requests the following new IANA registries:
>     >
>     > </OLD>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > <NEW>
>     >
>     >    9.  IANA Considerations
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > This document requests IANA to allocate a new IP Protocol Number value 
> for “SRv6 payload” with the following definition:
>     >
>     > The value TBD in the Next Header field of an IPv6 header or any 
> extension header indicates that the payload content is identified via the 
> segment identifier in the IPv6 Destination Address.
>     >
>     This seems like an extremely narrow use case to justify an IP Protocol
>     Number allocation. If this is the route taken, I would suggest to
>     define something more generic like "Interpreted" which could mean that
>     there is a next header, but it's interpretation requires information
>     elsewhere in the packet. That way the number could potentially be used
>     in other contexts than just SR.
>
>     Tom
>
>     >
>     >
>     >       This document requests the following new IANA registries:
>     >
>     > </NEW>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > We would propose to submit a revision with this text on the IANA 
> section of NET-PGM beginning of next week.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     > Pablo.
>     >
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