Re: Message Numbers and Disconnect Codes

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz%cmu.edu@localhost>]

On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 05:40:11 -0700 Chris Lonvick 
<clonvick%cisco.com@localhost> wrote:

> For Message Numbers, I can propose text such as:
>
>    Requests for assignments of new message numbers in the range of 1 to
>    127 MUST be done through the "IETF Consensus" method as described in
>    [RFC2434].
>
>    Requests for assigments of new message numbers in the range of 128 to
>    191 MUST be done through the "Standards Action" method as described
>    in [RFC2434].
>
>    The IANA will not control the message numbers range of 192 through
>    255.  These are designated as "Private Use" as described in [RFC2434].

Yes, I think that pretty much captures what we're trying to do.


> For the Disconnect Codes, I can propose this text:
>
>    Requests for assignments of new disconnect codes in the range of 1 to
>    255 MUST be done through the "IETF Consensus" method as described in
>    [RFC2434].  Disconnect codes will be assigned sequentially.


> Then do we want to partition the Disconnect Code name space?  Perhaps
> [1..191] are allocated via the "IETF Consensus" methods and [192..255] are
> for "Private Use"?

Yes, it might be good to reserve a chunk of this space for private use.