> On Sep 21, 2019, at 2:20 PM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 21-Sep-19 17:45, Joe Touch wrote:
>> Hi, all,
>> 
>> I wouldn’t care if this doc used 114 - as long as it is very clear that 114 
>> is for *ANY* 0-hop protocol, which means ANYONE else can also use it.
>> 
>> That means that it might be useful to treat that protocol a little like the 
>> experimental TCP codepoints as per RFC6994, i.e., to include a long (4-byte 
>> minimum) magic number and tolerate collisions.
> 
> Or add a protocol number following this ambiguous protocol number.
> 
> (See what I did there?)

Sure, that’s what the ID does - but it’s also a value that’s presumably 
unlikely to come up otherwise (that’s why it’s not just a single byte).

Joe

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