draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-09.txt

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

Question/observation on iana considerations here:

   Also, sub-Types of a TE Link TLV from 10 to 32767 are to be assigned
   by Expert Review; values from 32768 through 32772 are reserved for
   Private Use; and values from 32773 through 65535 are to be assigned
   First Come First Served.  In all cases, assigned values are to be
   registered with IANA.

I'm assuming that from a protocol perspective, there are no semantics
associated with the actual value of a TLV. I.e, For a given function
X, the value 259 would work the same as 65534 as far as
interoperability and such was concerned. But if this is the case, it
seems somewhat silly to have half the range be under expert review,
and the other half FCFS. Why would anyone bother with the expert
review, if they can just ask for the FCFS assignment with no questions
asked?

A big point behind of expert review is to be able to say no when it
makes sense to say no. But saying no has no value when there is the
obvious way around the 'no'.

Thomas