I don’t think there should be anything controversial with the changes I made. 
Can we move onto more pressing issues?

Dino

> On Oct 25, 2018, at 8:09 AM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Actually, given the existence of RFC 8126, varying from that recommendation 
> for the distinction between Reserved and Unassigned (by which, what we mean 
> is Unassigned) should only be done with very good reason.
> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> On 10/25/18 11:04 AM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>> It doesn’t *have to be* what 8126 is. It needs to be what we believe the the 
>> unassigned bits are labeled.
>> Dino
>>> On Oct 24, 2018, at 10:02 PM, <[email protected]> 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Dino,
>>>  Thank you.
>>>  I’m afraid that « reserved and unassigned » is still not appropriate (see 
>>> 8126). Please change it with “unassigned and available for future use”.
>>>  Cheers,
>>> Med
>>>  De : Dino Farinacci [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> Envoyé : jeudi 25 octobre 2018 05:05
>>> À : BOUCADAIR Mohamed TGI/OLN
>>> Cc : Luigi Iannone; [email protected]
>>> Objet : Re: [lisp] draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6833bis-19: Reserved/Unassigned
>>>  How about these changes? So we can not over complicate this.
>>> 
>>> Dino
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:24 AM, <[email protected]> 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Luigi,
>>>> 
>>>> Fully agree that changing the text and updating the figures would be 
>>>> appropriate.
>>>> 
>>>> Please note that a similar action is needed for 
>>>> draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6830bis-24, e.g.,
>>>> 
>>>>   R: The R-bit is a Reserved bit for future use.  It MUST be set to 0
>>>>      on transmit and MUST be ignored on receipt.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Med
>>>> 
>>>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>>>> De : Luigi Iannone [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>>> Envoyé : mercredi 24 octobre 2018 10:01
>>>>> À : Dino Farinacci
>>>>> Cc : BOUCADAIR Mohamed TGI/OLN; [email protected]
>>>>> Objet : Re: [lisp] draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6833bis-19: Reserved/Unassigned
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>> 
>>>>> disclaimer: this is my personal point of view.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I didn’t catch before this part of RFC 8126. Thanks Med from bringing it 
>>>>> up.
>>>>> 
>>>>> While I understand Dino’s reply, because I my self as well always thought
>>>>> “reserved = can be used in the future”, I think that Med is right.
>>>>> 
>>>>> To be compliant with RFC 8126, and because we may need those “reserved” 
>>>>> bits
>>>>> in the future, we better mark them as “unassigned”.
>>>>> This means changing the text and clearly spell out that this is conform to
>>>>> RFC 8126 definitions.
>>>>> 
>>>>> At the end, it is as simple as adding the following sentence in section 2
>>>>> “Requirements Notation”:
>>>>> 
>>>>>       The  “Unassigned” and “Reserved” terminology for bits and fields of
>>>>>       messages and headers defined in this documents is the Well-Known
>>>>>       Registration Status Terminology defined in Section 6 of [RFC8126].
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Then we just replace “reserved” with “unassigned” throughout the document.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ciao
>>>>> 
>>>>> L.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 23 Oct 2018, at 18:27, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am not sure if we should make this distinction. What does the WG think?
>>>>> Because fields marked “reserved” are obviously unassigned and don’t know 
>>>>> if
>>>>> they will be assigned in the future.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So I am not sure how helpful in making the distinction.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dino
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Dino, all,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Apologies for raising this late easy to fix comment:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> RFC8126 says the following:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     Unassigned:  Not currently assigned, and available for assignment
>>>>>>>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>>           via documented procedures.  While it's generally clear that
>>>>>>>           any values that are not registered are unassigned and
>>>>>>>           available for assignment, it is sometimes useful to
>>>>>>>           explicitly specify that situation.  Note that this is
>>>>>>>           distinctly different from "Reserved".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     Reserved:  Not assigned and not available for assignment.
>>>>>>>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>>>>>           Reserved values are held for special uses, such as to extend
>>>>>>>           the namespace when it becomes exhausted.  "Reserved" is also
>>>>>>>           sometimes used to designate values that had been assigned
>>>>>>>           but are no longer in use, keeping them set aside as long as
>>>>>>>           other unassigned values are available.  Note that this is
>>>>>>>           distinctly different from "Unassigned".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This is well handled in Section 5.1, but not in other sections which are
>>>>> using Reserved instead of Unassigned as per RFC8126.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> It would be appropriate to update the text accordingly. Thank you.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>> Med
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