> I was looking into the procedures to request a LCAF type and realized that 
> there seems to be two LCAF registries on IANA: 'LISP Address Type' [1] and 
> 'LISP LCAF Type' [2]. One is defined by RFC6830 [3] and the other by 
> draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf [4]. The problem is that they define different 
> allocation mechanisms (FCFS vs specification required) for the second half of 
> the LCAF space (128-255). Why do we keep two and which one is the 
> authoritative registry? My guess is that 'LISP Address Type' should be 
> overridden by 'LISP LCAF Type' but wanted to check with the WG. Sorry if this 
> has been pointed out before and I missed the discussion.

Well it really is FCFS after a specification has been written. There is really 
is only one registry. They just were called different names. We can fix this in 
RFC6830bis/RFC6833bis.

And when we do that update these bis RFCs we can point them to RFC8060 (the 
LCAF to be RFC soon).

Dino

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