The IESG has approved the following document: - 'LISP Shared Extension Message & IANA Registry for LISP Packet Type Allocations' (draft-ietf-lisp-type-iana-06.txt) as Experimental RFC This document is the product of the Locator/ID Separation Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lisp-type-iana/ Technical Summary The document proposes to create two new registries, namely the "LISP Packet Types" and the "LISP Experimental Message Sub-Type". In the LISP architecture, there are control messages that are identified via a 4-bit "Type" field. While all of these messages are defined in RFC6830 (the base LISP specifications), no formal request to IANA to create a registry can be found in that document. This document fixes the issue by formally asking the creation of such registry. Additionally, the document suggests to reserve one of these "Type" values for experimental messages, that can be further identified through an additional 12-bit "Sub-Type" field. Working Group Summary The document has been welcomed and supported by the WG. Furthermore, the additional need to reserve one type for experimental use, with a sub-type extension, has been also supported by the WG. Document Quality There are several independent and inter-operable implementations already using the requested initial content of the "LISP Packet Types" registry. The "LISP Experimental Message Sub-Type" registry is provided for future use, but a few individual submissions already propose their use. Furthermore, LISPLab implementation (http://www.lisp-lab.org/) uses the new Experimental message to implement new LISP control messages. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Luigi Iannone <ggx@gigix.net> Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard <db3546@att.com>
