Re: IANA assignments

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

Kireeti,

>> It might be possible to change this assignment if people can make a
>> clear case that:
>>
>>  - leaving the assignment of 3 is clearly worse than changing  to 4,

> This is clear: all implementations that reported (with the exception
> of the new revision from cisco) use the value of 4.

Agreed. Taking care of this.

We also need to make sure we don't have situations like this in
future. The solution with Expert Review Thomas proposed seems to be
reasonable.

Alex

>>    and
>>  - changing to 4 doesn't cause hardship and confusion for those that
>>    have picked up the IANA-assigned value of 3.

> Both cisco (George Swallow) and OIF (Ben Mack-Crane) have stated on
> this list that reverting to 4 is acceptable *if done quickly*.  So,
> can we do this quickly?

> Kireeti.
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