Re: Message Numbers and Disconnect Codes

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

Hi,

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Martin Forssen wrote:

> On 22 Jul, Chris Lonvick wrote:
> > We could say that 1..254 are assigned via IETF Consensus and 255 is
> > reserved for Private Use.  Any objections to that?
>
> Yes, I would prefer to have a number of message codes reserved for
> private use. Some extensions are cleaner to implement with a number of
> separate messages. Of course one wants to keep the number of messages
> needed down but to limit it to just one is IMHO tad restrictive.
>
> However I do not see any need to reserve 64 different numbers. 16 should
> suffice (240..255).


I have a bid for 16.  Do I hear any other bids?  Going..  going..  :-)

If I don't hear any objections to reserving the Disconnect Codes
of [240..255] for Private Use, then I'll incorporate that into the
documents.

Thanks,
Chris