Re: Message Numbers and Disconnect Codes

[Chris Lonvick <clonvick%cisco.com@localhost>]

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Derek Fawcus wrote:

> 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.

We could say that 1..254 are assigned via IETF Consensus and 255 is
reserved for Private Use.  Any objections to that?

Thanks,
Chris