First, a disclaimer. This I-D was just published to suggest one way to deal
with the assigned number series in the future. The actual decision is the
province of IANA and the IESG. I was informed by IANA that they are
currently revising RFC 1700, but I don't know what form they're planning to
use.
The specific inspiration for this draft was the following line from RFC
2929, which seems much better than referencing an assigned numbers RFC that
is nearly guaranteed to be out of date on publication: "IANA currently
maintains a web page of DNS parameters. See
<http://www.iana.org/numbers.htm>."
As to your comment, filling in the references column on
<http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/port-numbers> would be a
useful exercise that I expect IANA would be willing to accept help on, but
it does seem a lower priority than setting up new namespaces.
I don't think I understand why one would need a special search engine. For
what it's worth, searching Google for IANA TCP brings up the port
assignments <http://www.google.com/search?q=iana+tcp>.
In any event, I believe a static RFC snapshot of assigned numbers such as
RFC 1700 has the same limitations as <http://www.iana.org/numbers.html>,
with the additional downside that it is nearly guaranteed to be out of date.
- dan
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Dan Kohn <mailto:dan(_at_)dankohn(_dot_)com>
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mr. James W. Laferriere [mailto:babydr(_at_)baby-dragons(_dot_)com]
Sent: Monday, 2000-09-25 13:04
To: ietf maillist
Subject: Re: draft-kohn-assigned-numbers-00.txt
Hello All , Has everyone seen this & not wondered where the
search engine is ? I also see a lack of port# -> draft/rfc
capabilities . I hope people other than myself find this
archive of limited use ? Tia , JimL
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 Internet-Drafts(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org wrote:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : Assigned Numbers
Author(s) : D. Kohn
Filename : draft-kohn-assigned-numbers-00.txt
Pages : 6
Date : 22-Sep-00
This document replaces the static snapsnot of current assigned
numbers used in previous documents with a link to
<http://www.iana.org/numbers.html>.
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