Re: IANA assignments

[George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>]

> Let me start with the second issue, as it is more relevant to CCAMP.
> The responses I got unanimously state that the codepoint value used
> for SONET/SDH TSPEC and FLOWSPEC is 4.  There is a minor wrinkle here
> that in Cisco's implementation, the initial version used 4 and a later
> revision uses 3.  Apart from that, all responses (from about 10
> independent implementations, if memory serves) indicated that they use
> the value 4.

Cisco doesn't care which value is used.  We DO want the issue resolved
SOON.

> On that basis, I would strongly recommend IANA to assign 4 for both
> the C-Types of SONET/SDH TSPEC and FLOWSPEC.
> 
> The other issue, what to do with the value of 3, is less clear.  Most
> responses indicated that they either parsed and ignored or simply
> ignored this value.  As CCAMP WG chair, I don't have a stand on
> whether this value should be set aside as reserved, or left as a hole
> in the address space, to be assigned to the next request for a code
> point for a TSPEC/FLOWSPEC C-Type.

I say leave it as a hole but have a note that says it won't get assigned
until at least 2005.  (To give folks time to field versions that don't
parse this.)

...George

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