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

[Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3 at gmail.com>]

I'd be happy to write an RFC to do this if it seems like it has a
reasonable probability of approval. I'll poke around a bit and see if
there seems to be anything else such a hypothetical "IS-IS TLV
Nomenclature" RFC should do.

Thanks,
Donald

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Tony Li<tony.li at tony.li> wrote:
>
> 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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