On 4 May 2016, at 15:48, Eric C Rosen wrote:
On 5/3/2016 6:48 PM, Ben Campbell wrote:
I am curious why the
"Additional PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags" registry needs a
standards-action policy. It's pretty obvious why for the main flag
registry, due to the small value-space. Are people concerned that the
Additional flag will also run out of space?
Yes, I think that is an issue. 48 flags may sound like a lot, but the
existing 8 flags got used up fairly quickly and suddenly; one draft
grabbed four flag bits. So FCFS doesn't really seem like an
appropriate policy here. The other possible policies are all subject
to politics, but at least Standards Action comes with early
allocation.
That's a reasonable answer.
Thanks!
Ben.
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