Re: draft-guichard-pe-ce-addr-01.txt

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

Thomas,

  From what I remember, Scott actually told them quite strongly
  that this will not be approved. What do you think we should
  do about this?

-- 
Alex
http://www.psg.com/~zinin/

Tuesday, April 8, 2003, 9:05:48 AM, Thomas Narten wrote:
> [repost, cc'ing IESG]

> This ID, "Address Allocation for PE-CE links within an RFC2547bis
> Network ", has a rather interesting IANA considerations section:

>> 7.      IANA Considerations 
>>    
>>   IANA should allocate a /8 address block for sole use by [L3VPN] 
>>   Service Providers. The actual address block assignment is TBD. 
     
> Apparently at least some vendors are asking the RIRs about getting
> this allocated.

> Obviously, I would be surprised if this is something the IETF would
> ever bless.

> How much attention is this getting in the PPVPN WG? How much support
> does this ID have in the community? We may want to push back on this
> point, to take the heat off the RIRs and to level-set expectations.

> It's got a long set of authors, which may imply (or intent to imply)
> something about support.

> Thomas