> On May 24, 2018, at 8:35 PM, Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> The story behind this one was that I was asked to defer publication of -LTS
> until the IANA registry draft got published (and I'm still waiting).  In the
> meantime implementers needed to use some value for deployments, and 26 was the
> next unused value so that got used under the assumption that if everything
> else was also waiting for the registry draft to be published it wouldn't get
> grabbed away suddenly.  It's now been in use for about two years so there is
> quite a bit of precedent for its use by LTS.

This is perhaps sufficient reason to change the compression assignment.
It sure looks like Peter did the right thing in good faith, and at
this time, the LTS use should I think be grandfathered in.  Are there
(m)any implementations shipped that already have 26 for compression?

-- 
        Viktor.

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