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Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-02.txt

2002-02-09 00:39:19

Keith Moore writes:
You might notice that it's considerably more difficult to get approval
for new IP and TCP options than it is to get a port assignment.

John R. LoVerso responds:
No it's not.  When I needed one 2 years ago, I asked for and was assigned one.
TCP Option Number 24, "SNAP".

Thanks for the data point. Did you request and obtain Keith's approval
of the merits of your protocol extension before you started using it?

---Dan

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