Behcet,

That was a historical list. The current assignments are in
https://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers/protocol-numbers.xhtml .
If you want to go garbage collecting, that's the place to start.

Cheers,
Andy


On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:25 AM Behcet Sarikaya <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 7:02 PM John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Protocol 114 was unassigned in RFC 1700 in Oct 1994, which was the last
>> RFC tabulating protocol assignments.  In January 2002, RFCs ceased being
>> published for protocol number assignments, according to RFC 3232.
>> Sometime before Feb 1999, protocol 114 was assigned here:
>>
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/19990203044112/http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/protocol-numbers
>> <https://web.archive.org/web/19990203044112/http://www.isi..edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/protocol-numbers>
>>
>>
>
> I looked at this document.
> It looks like many listed there are no longer used/exist.
> Maybe deprecating them and thereby making the numbers available for
> assignment seem like something IETF/IESG can do?
>
> Behcet
>
>> The original IANA, Jon Postel, died on October 16, 1998.  There was some
>> turmoil in the relevant websites at the time.  The Internet Archive's
>> Wayback Machine does not appear to have captured the IANA.org or isi.edu
>> websites during an earlier time when this protocol number was not
>> assigned.  But, only five assignments in Feb 1999 had followed 114; the
>> next one was L2TP (protocol 115) by Bernard Aboba (April 1998).  The
>> preceding one was PGM (protocol 113) by Tony Speakman in January 1998.
>> So it's a pretty good bet that it was assigned by Postel between January
>> and April 1998.
>>
>> (L2TP was documented in RFC 2661 of August 1999, and by that point it was
>> not using protocol #115; it ran over IP and UDP on port 1701.  A later
>> 2005 evolution of L2TP, L2TPv3, used protocol 115.)
>>
>> Does anyone have archives of the TCP-IP Distribution List from 1998?
>> The only copy I have found so far is at
>> http://securitydigest.org/tcp-ip/ but it ends in 1994 (with no apparent
>> "we're closing down the list" messages).
>>
>> A separate issue:
>>
>> Having read the draft-zhu-intarea-gma-03.txt, and skimmed the 2017
>> draft-kanugovi-intarea-mams-protocol-03 that it references, I don't see
>> how this protocol could in any way be seen as a 0-hop protocol.  The
>> whole design is to provide multiple paths to the Internet, which would
>> require that the relevant packets traverse routers.  The MAMS draft
>> explicitly says "MAMS routes user plane data packets at the IP layer".
>> 0-hop protocols only operate on a single LAN and cannot be routed, by
>> definition.  (ARP, DHCP or its predecessor BOOTP are examples of 0-hop
>> protocols.)
>>
>> Therefore, I think this draft should not be using protocol 114.
>>
>>         John
>>
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