Hi,
On May 24, 2006, at 6:16 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
This is not correct. They do, indeed, assign values.
Yes.
They also apply some minimal rules in doing so.
IANA does a basic sanity check and if there is any question as to
whether a port should be allocated, we pass the request to an IESG
Designated Expert who says yes or no.
Squatting on unassigned values, while it does happen, is considered
to be in bad taste.
It is often disappointing to folks who have gone to the trouble to
obtain a port to find out that nothing stops someone else from using
the same port for a different protocol.
Rgds,
-drc
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