Re: Issue: Vendor Specifc Attribute Values

["Alan DeKok" <aland@ox.org>]

Ignacio Goyret <igoyret@lucent.com> wrote:
> The method described in RFC2882 was used by one vendor and it works so long
> as the bottom 16-bits of the vendor-id is not repeated, something that was
> true then but it hasn't been for a long time.

http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers

  Goes up to 23642 as of today.  At the current rate, it will be a
number of years before the assignments hit 2^16.

  I'm not sure why you think 2^16 was passed a long time ago.

> My impression is that if assignment of new values was easier, the need for
> VSEs would tend to disappear. As it stands, it is a process that takes a
> good year at least.

  There will *always* be a need for people to define site-local VSA's
and VSE's.  Without a standard method of doing so, they will choose
methods that destroy protocol interoperability.

  Alan DeKok.


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