Re: Message Numbers and Disconnect Codes

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

On Friday, September 24, 2004 10:25:01 -0600 Joseph Galbraith 
<galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost> wrote:

> This example implies that in the channel_open / channel_open_failure
> case we may want three ranges:
>
> 0x0000 0000 - 0xFDFF FFFF        IETF / connection layer
>
> 0xFE00 0000 - 0xFEFF FFFF        channel-type specific, numbers from
>        this range for channel-types with @domain in their names are
>        defined by the maintainer of the @domain.  For channel-types
>        without an @domain are defined by IETF action, and these
>        numbers are allocated by IANA.  This registery is currently
>        empty for all IETF defined channel-types.
>
> 0xFF00 0000 - 0xFFFF FFFF        private range, used any way
>        implemention wants, may not interoperate with other non-standard
>        implementations, but will never conflict with a standard
>        implementation.

Good, except we shouldn't set an allocation policy for the 
channel-type-specific range.  It is up to the channel type to define the 
meaning of these values and to establish a registry if one is appropriate 
(I expect it will frequently not be needed, just as we don't establish 
separate registries for the method-specific message type ranges).

-- Jeff