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

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

Mike,

mike shand wrote:
> I'm not really sure how that would help unless we could get the names 
> changed in ISO/IEC 10589 itself. I rather doubt both the ability to do 
> that, and the desirability, even if we could.


Having it in an RFC would allow us to submit it to JTC1 on the fast 
track.  We could then also amend the IANA registry in anticipation of 
this being approved.  Please see RFC 3563, section 3.4.2.


> We would simply be replacing the potential confusion caused by having 
> two TLVs with the same name, but different numbers and which are used in 
> different PDUs, with the confusion caused by having a TLV (2) which is 
> called "Intermediate System Neighbors" in ISO/IEC 10589 (and probably 
> much documentation and code based on that) and called "IS reachability 
> TLV" in some obscure RFC.


... and an update of 10589.


Tony