Re: Message Numbers and Disconnect Codes

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

Joseph Galbraith <galb-list%vandyke.com@localhost> writes:

> 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.

I'm not sure this really is needed, but I agree it makes sense.

Regards,
/Niels