Re: Message Numbers and Disconnect Codes

[Derek Fawcus <dfawcus%cisco.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:18:42AM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 05:40:11 -0700 Chris Lonvick 
> <clonvick%cisco.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > 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.

Well the other option would be for one code be allocated as "Private Use"
and the user then utilise the description string to demux any particular reasons.

Mind I'm not sure if it's worth the effort,  simply to save .25 of the code
space.

DF