Re: [Isis-wg] Error in IANA TLVs listing

[Tony Li <tony.li at tony.li>]

Donald,

If you want to propose name changes and fix the overloading, that would 
be fine by me.  However, I believe that would properly require an RFC.

Tony


Donald Eastlake wrote:
> OK, I'll send in an errata to IANA.
>
> I think maintaining conflicting names is a bad idea so, while of
> course the expert can do whatever they like, I plan to recommend that
> the main listing name for TLV #2 be "IS Reachability TLV" with a
> footnote stating that the ISO standard confusingly calls it the same
> thing as TLV #6.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:59 AM, mike shand<mshand at cisco.com> wrote:
> > I agree with Tony.
> >
> >   Mike
> >
> > Tony Li wrote:
> > > Hi Donald,
> > >
> > > Donald Eastlake wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I believe there is a significant error in the IANA listing of IS-IS TLVs
> > > > at
> > > > http://www.iana.org/assignments/isis-tlv-codepoints
> > >
> > > I confirm the error.  It seems to source from RFC 3359, which initially
> > > populated the registry.
> > >
> > >
> > > > In particular, both TLV #2 and TLV #6 are listed as "IIS Neighbors". I
> > > > believe that is correct for TLV #6 but that TLV #2 is the older IS
> > > > Reachability TLV ("narrow metric"). Should someone contact IANA to get
> > > > this fixed?
> > > >
> > > > PS: Actually, to be persnickety, since the reference is ISP 10589,
> > > > looking there, I think TLV #6 is called "IS Neighbors" or
> > > > "Intermediate System Neighbors", not "IIS Neighbors".
> > > TLV 6 is indeed "Intermediate System Neighbors" (see 9.6).  However, TLV 2
> > > is also "Intermediate System Neighbors"  (see 9.8, 9.9).
> > >
> > > I believe that the correct procedure here is for someone, in this case
> > > you, as discoverer, to contact IANA and inform them of the error.  As the
> > > registry is managed under the 'expert review' process, they can contact
> > > their experts and have this confirmed and corrected.
> > >
> > > I propose that the correction be to make them both "IS Neighbors".  It's
> > > unfortunate that 10589 overloaded the term, but I believe that we're not in
> > > a position to correct that at this point.
> >
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tony
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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