Port numbers and IPv6 (was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy-00.txt)

[David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>]

Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 3. Thus I come to the key question - how high should the bar be for
> assignments in clearly constrained namespaces? This month's poster
> child is IPv6 option numbers, but at an even more basic level, we
> should probably be more worried about port numbers, where we seem
> pretty close to running out of well-known numbers, and moving along
> nicely through the registered port numbers.

I was surprised that TCP-over-IPv6 and UDP-over-IPv6 didn't increase
the port number space. I know it's off-topic here, but anyone know why
they didn't? It surely must have been considered.

--
David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>


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