At 7:02 AM -0800 11/6/07, Bernard Aboba wrote: >\ >Quoting from Ryan McBride: > >"The IANA has a heavily bureaucratic process for getting official number >assignments. There are essentially two options for getting a protocol >number assigned: The first is to run your protocol through the IETF on a >standards track. This avenue is closed to us - the IETF has become >monopolized by large corporate interests, and they have no problem with >using patented protocols. They're perfectly happy using VRRP, and they >won't support another standard. The second path is their proprietary >path; you pay for "experts" to review your protocol and if they agree >that it requires the numbers you're asking for, you get it. Paying for expert review is certainly news to me. I've cc'ed David Conrad, who is GM of IANA, so he can comment. Looking at http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/usr-port-number.pl and http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/sys-port-number.pl, though, I certainly don't see a charge for expert review. >If you look >at the list of assigned protocol numbers, this method appears to be the >favored one. Getting a number allocation has more to do with having >money. Obviously, since we're not a large multinational corporation, we >can't afford to take this path. Since they were unable to help us by >providing a real alternative, our only option is to simply pick an unused >number and go with that." The article goes on to say: >JA: Are you concerned that at a future date the IANA might officially assign the port you've chosen to another protocol? >Ryan McBride: Not extremely worried, no. Our hope is that they will accept it as an official assignment before that has to happen. In other words, they are squatting. They're certainly not the first, but it might be useful if IANA put something in large letters about the fees or lack of fees on the application page, to combat whatever other bad info is floating around there. Not that I really expect blogs to fact check, but it would get anyone who actually looked the right information. regards, Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf