EDNS0 Options for Private Use
draft-dempsky-edns0-options-for-private-use-00

Abstract

This document reserves a range of EDNS0 Option values for private use.

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Table of Contents

1.  Introduction
2.  IANA Considerations
3.  Normative References
§  Author's Address

1.  Introduction

It is common practice for IANA registries to reserve a range of values for private use. These values are useful for testing new extensions prior to official IANA assignment as well as private extensions not intended for general use.

However, [RFC2671] (Vixie, P., “Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0),” August 1999.) created an IANA registry for EDNS0 Options and did not reserve a range of values for private use. Therefore because of these merits, this document reserves a range of EDNS0 Option values for private use.

2.  IANA Considerations

This document requests that IANA reserve the EDNS0 Option values 65280 through 65534 (i.e., 0xFF00 through 0xFFFE) for private use.

3. Normative References

Author's Address