draft-bala-uni-ldp-rsvp-extensions-03.txt

[Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>]

>    Proposed TLV types 0x0960 û 0x0970 as described in Sections 2.1 û
>    2.7 above.

nit: has funny characters in it

>    UNI-specific status codes have been allocated out of the Private Use
>    space, i.e., 0x3Fxxxxxx. These do not require IANA administration.

If I understand this correctly (a big if) this seems funny. "Private
use" means something specific, and is not something that vendors/SDOs
agree to use. 2434 sez:

      Private Use - For private or local use only, with the type and
           purpose defined by the local site. No attempt is made to
           prevent multiple sites from using the same value in different
           (and incompatible) ways. There is no need for IANA to review
           such assignments and assignments are not generally useful for
           interoperability.

           Examples: Site-specific options in DHCP [DHCP] have
           significance only within a single site.  "X-foo:" header
           lines in email messages.

So the question is, should private use really be used here or should a
globally unique value be assigned.

Also, I assume IANA has reviewed this and understands what it needs to do?

Thomas