The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Experimental Codepoint Allocation for the Path Computation Element communication Protocol (PCEP)' (draft-ietf-pce-pcep-exp-codepoints-05.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Path Computation Element 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-pce-pcep-exp-codepoints/ Technical Summary IANA assigns values to the Path Computation Element (PCE) communication Protocol (PCEP) parameters (messages, objects, TLVs). IANA established a top-level registry to contain all PCEP codepoints and sub-registries. This top-level registry contains sub-registries for PCEP message, object and TLV types. The allocation policy for each of these sub-registries is IETF Review. This document updates RFC 5440 by changing the allocation policies for these three registries to mark some of the code points as assigned for Experimental Use. Working Group Summary PCEP implementers have been struggling for a while without an option to use experimental code points in their early implementations. This draft was welcomed by everyone in the working group as a much-needed improvement. Document Quality Several implementers have confirmed that they intend to start making immediate use of the experimental code points. Adrian Farrel did a close review and provided guidance on the right form of words to pass to IANA. He subsequently became a co-author. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Jonathan Hardwick Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
