Re: First steps...Re: IANA type code registration clean up

[Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>]

At 17:27 +0000 6/14/07, bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:

> 	WG meeting minutes.  WKS was deemed an atack vector.
> 	Prudent operators stopped using it.

RFC 5013 - Bill's Notes from DNSIND.

> >  23 - NSAP-PTR is blank, presumably that is meant as a "ditto" to the
> >  previous line.
>
> 	nit-picker.

If I had known it was Bill's.

> >  31 and 32 - EID and NIMLOC have no document to define them.
>
> 	wait... i have copies in my archives.

http://bill's brain/notes...


Seriously, I have located copies on the web, but they are not in 
archival documents.  I think all would be happy asking IANA to just 
list them as IANA reserved.

> >  34 - IANA's reference is an email address that is out of date.
>
> 	whiner.   do ALL email addresses have to continue to work
> 	forever?

Try sending comments to the editor of RFC 3090 and see if he cares.

> >  38 - IANA doesn't list 3363 which moved A6 to experimental.
>
> 	perhaps it should

I consider that a minor registration clean up.

> >  40 - SINK has no defining document listed.
>
> 	again ...  check WG meeting minutes.

As Donald replies later...just needs doin', nothing big.

> >  100-103 - no explanation why these are IANA reserved are documented.
>
> 	One really needs to get DocMoc to write it down... along
> 	with Keith Sklower or any of the other original Berkeley team
> 	who might remember.

I don't want to make too much out of this.  Perhaps the registration 
is okay as it is.  The registry doesn't need the rationale, just 
maintains the links from object (type code name and number) to 
subject (document).

> 	actually, a valid response to such a request is "I can't,
> 	the documentation has been erased"...  Witness the problems
> 	building a SaturnV booster.  The blueprints are listed
> 	as being @ Houston and Goddard... but there are no prints left.

Even that would be good - recall I am concerned that a fresh 
implementer couldn't determine how to implement a "required" type. 
If the type is forgotten, just say that.

BTW, the Saturn V plans are probably in a store room in GSFC building 
5.  If you  ever tried to trace the 10Base2 cable in the basement 
you'd probably find the backups of the Iran-Contra emails too.

I'm serious.  No smiley here.

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