RE: IANA assignments

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

> Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel.be wrote:
> > to what *change* do you refer here, when you say
> > 
> > " If not, at least, isn't it a good idea to let the WG know
> > the rational reason behind changing the proposed value in the
> > draft ?"
> > 
> > The SENDER_TSPEC/FLOWSPEC values were always mentioned as TBA
> > and value 3 has never been reserved -
> 
> The value 3 was specified for the old RSVP-TE draft.
> 
> Yes, there was no value specified in the GMPLS-SONET/SDH draft.
> 
> So how did IANA assign a value?  And why did they choose to assign a 
> value to this draft, when they aren't assigning values to other 
> important drafts (like DiffServ-TE)?
> 
They do NOT assign a value to just a DRAFT 
They assign a value to a DRAFT AFTER it has been approved by IESG
and put into RFC-Editor and IANA queues for final processing.

That NEVER happend to the old RSVP draft, and so that old draft
NEVER HAD a VALID assignment.

Bert
> -- David
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