After a little discussion and initial review on the wgchairs list, I'd like to draw the broader IETF community's attention to the draft below. It's my belief that the practice of reserving bottom and top code points is fairly common in the IETF (and perhaps it has analogs in other SDOs?). However, I don't think the practice has been written down anywhere for the benefit of those who may be new to our organization. Note that the goal of this document is to discuss specifically certain reserved values. It does not have the intention of discussing allocation strategies for various ranges and their types. (See draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis-11 and RFC 3692 as examples of such documents.) As such, I don't believe this document should have much a creeping scope of things to cover. The goal would be to submit this as a BCP document sometime this year, potentially as an AD-sponsored draft. I welcome your comments. -- Jeff ----- Forwarded message from internet-drafts@xxxxxxxx ----- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:09:38 -0700 From: internet-drafts@xxxxxxxx To: i-d-announce@xxxxxxxx Subject: I-D Action: draft-haas-code-point-reservation-bcp-02.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Reservation Strategies for the Zeroth and Last Code Points in IETF Registries and for Bit Field Registries Author : Jeffrey Haas Filename : draft-haas-code-point-reservation-bcp-02.txt Pages : 5 Date : 2015-09-18 Abstract: This document describes common code point reservation strategies for the zeroth and last code points in IANA-managed IETF registries and for bit-field registries. This document additionally provides the reasoning to support these strategies and their adoption as Best Current Practices to be applied to all IETF registries. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-haas-code-point-reservation-bcp/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-haas-code-point-reservation-bcp-02 A diff from the previous version is available at: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-haas-code-point-reservation-bcp-02 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt ----- End forwarded message -----