----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffrey Haas" <jhaas@xxxxxxxx> To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 3:20 PM Subject: Code point reservation BCP > 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. Yup; a part of 'How to Write Code 101' but nonetheless a debate that I have lost on a number of occasions over the years, so I hope that this makes it through the process. I would prefer 'first' to 'zeroth' - I find the latter somewhat obscure - and I would prefer the title to be more specific, slotting in the word 'numeric' after IETF (or should that be IANA?) since textual registries can be ordered and have a first and last but the considerations here would not apply. Tom Petch > 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 ----- >