The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG (mpls) to consider the following document: - 'IANA Registry for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack' <draft-ietf-mpls-1stnibble-10.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2024-11-01. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This memo creates a new IANA registry (called the Post-stack First Nibble registry) for the first nibble (4-bit field) immediately following an MPLS label stack. The memo offers a rationale for such a registry, describes how the registry should be managed, and provides some initial entries. Furthermore, this memo sets out some documentation requirements for registering new values. Finally, it provides some recommendations that make processing MPLS packets easier and more robust. The relationship between the IANA IP Version Numbers (RFC 2780) and the Post-stack First Nibble registry is described in this document. This document updates RFC 4928 by deprecating the heuristic method for identifying the type of packet encapsulated in MPLS. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-1stnibble/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
