Woj,

in the LW46 case, you can still do a=0, and ensure that you don't provision any 
PSID which results in the well known ports.

cheers,
Ole

> 
> On 2 June 2014 21:49, Tom Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's a difference between setting a=6 and setting aside the lowest PSIDs 
> because they occupy that port space. The value of a determines how ports are 
> assigned to each PSID, but does not affect the usable PSID numbering space.
> 
> I think that you should illustrate how you think this would work before we 
> reach a conclusion. 
> A setting of a=6 arrives precisely at what the goal is here, exclude ports 
> 0-1024. So if there is a need to have another way of achieving that, by 
> creating some excluded magic PSID value that corresponds to 0-1024, we would 
> like to know why is that relevant and how it is supposed to work in a system 
> where the PSID conveys to the CE the port-range.
> 
> Regards.
>  
> 
> RECOMMENDED is part of the RFC 2119 boilerplate. The (unintentionally) 
> missing term is NOT RECOMMENDED.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On 02/06/2014 3:27 PM, Wojciech Dec wrote:
> Well, I'm referring to the "RECOMMENDED" part. If the recommendation is NOT
> to allocate ports 0-1024, then this effectively recommends that a-bits=6.
> Moreover the meaning of SHOULD vs RECOMMEND should be questioned. The
> latter is not a regular normative term, and arguably if the recommendation
> is for excluding 0-1024 then a=6 looks like the SHOULD. If anyone wants the
> full port set, then a=0 would be an obvious consequence.
> 
> 
> On 2 June 2014 19:50, Tom Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Not sure how you read that, but it can be fixed by putting a comma after
> "SHOULD be 0" and replacing "to allocate" with "thus allocating".
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On 02/06/2014 12:14 PM, Wojciech Dec wrote:
> 
> Uhm, this appears to mean that the RECOMMENDED a-bits SHOULD be 6.
> 
> 
> On 26 May 2014 13:24, Ian Farrer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>   Hi,
> 
> This one slipped my mind….
> 
>   From a discussion with Ole during the MAP dhcp last call, there was a
> discussion about the exclusion of provisioning WKPs to CPEs -
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/softwires/current/msg06010.html
> 
> In previous versions, the lw4o6 used to reference
> sun-dhc-port-set-option,
> which also stated that the WKPs should not be assigned. This advice got
> lost when changing to reference map-dhcp for PSID format.
> 
> Here’s a wording change proposal to resolve this:
> 
> Section 5.1
> 
> Original text (last sentence, para 7):
> 
> "For lw4o6, the  number of a-bits SHOULD be 0."
> 
> Proposed change:
> 
> "For lw4o6, the number of a-bits SHOULD be 0 to allocate a single
> contiguous port set to each lwB4.
> 
> Unless a lwB4 is being allocated a full IPv4 address, it is RECOMMENDED
> that PSIDs containing the well-known ports (0-1023) are not allocated to
> lwB4s.”
> 
> Please let me know if you are OK with the proposed change.
> 
> cheers,
> Ian
> 
> 
>   Good spot on the WKP exclusion. Before the lw4o6 draft was updated to
> 
> reference map-dhcp for configuration,  the port configuration was
> described
> in sun-dhc-port-set-option, which also stated that the WKPs should not be
> assigned. This advice got lost when changing to reference map-dhcp. I’ll
> make a suggested text update for the lw4o6 draft to fix this. Does that
> work for you?
> 
> 
> yes, that would be good.
> 
> cheers,
> Ole
> 
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