In message <42D67CA3.3010304@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Hopwood writes: >Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> 3. Thus I come to the key question - how high should the bar be for >> assignments in clearly constrained namespaces? This month's poster >> child is IPv6 option numbers, but at an even more basic level, we >> should probably be more worried about port numbers, where we seem >> pretty close to running out of well-known numbers, and moving along >> nicely through the registered port numbers. > >I was surprised that TCP-over-IPv6 and UDP-over-IPv6 didn't increase >the port number space. I know it's off-topic here, but anyone know why >they didn't? It surely must have been considered. > That was considered to be part of TCPng, and as best I recall was explicitly out of scope. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf