All,

no objections have been received.

We will move forward and ask to put these two documents in HISTORIC state.

Thanks

Ciao

L.


> On 20 Nov 2019, at 03:43, Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> as discussed yesterday during the f2f meeting, we plan to move RFC7954 and 
> RFC7955 to HISTORIC state.
> 
> Rationale is described in the text provide below. This text will be 
> associated to the documents so to keep track of the LISP EID prefix 
> experiment.
> 
> Please let us know if you have any comment.
> 
> We plan to move forward in one week time.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ciao
> 
> L.
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> —————————————— PROPOSED TEXT———————————————
> 
> RFC 7954 created an experimental IPv6 prefix, namely 2001:5::/32, to be used 
> as Endpoint-IDentifier (EID) space for the Locator/Identifier Separation 
> Protocol (LISP).  The reserved address space was requested for an initial 
> 3-year period
> starting in September 2016 (until September 2019), with an option to extend 
> it by three years (until September 2022) upon the decision of the IETF.
> RFC 7955 describes a framework for the management of the prefix crested by 
> RFC 7954. As described in RFC 7955, RIPE NCC volunteered to provide 
> registration service during the experiment (up to 2022 at latest).
> 
> The initial experiment was supposed to last three years, until September 2019.
> The option to extend the experiment to three more years was subject to the 
> requirements written in section 10 of RFC 7954:
> 
>  Following the policies outlined in
>   [RFC5226], upon IETF Review, the decision should be made on whether
>   to have a permanent EID block assignment by September 2019.  If no
>   explicit action is taken or, if the IETF Review outcome is that it is
>   not worth having a reserved prefix as a global EID space, the whole
>   /32 will be taken out from the "IANA IPv6 Special-Purpose Address
>   Registry" and put back in the free pool managed by IANA.
> 
> In August 2019 RIPE NCC contacted the LISP WG asking if any action was 
> ongoing concerning the extension of the experiment. The LISP WG concluded 
> that very few requests have been made during three years and there was no 
> compelling reason to extent the experiment. No further action has been taken 
> by the LISP WG or the IETF. As such, in accordance with Section 10 of RFC 
> 7954, RIPE NCC de-registered the existing assignments and IANA put the prefix 
> back in the free pool (removing the entry from 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv6-special-registry 
> <https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv6-special-registry>).
> 
> At this point, RFC 7954 and RFC 7955 refer to a prefix that does not exists 
> anymore. As such it make sense to move both documents to the status of 
> "HISTORIC". This note, associated with the status change of the two RFCs will 
> allow to keep track of the LISP EID prefix experiment.

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