Revision to Registration Procedures for IS-IS Neighbor Link-Attribute Bit Values

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

[RFC5029] defines the "IS-IS Neighbor Link-Attribute Bit Values" registry and specifies a registration procedure of "Standards Action". In practice, this registration procedure is unnecessarily restrictive, as it prevents allocation of bits to experimental protocols, which in turn increases the risk of conflicts introduced by use of unregistered code points (so-called "code point squatting").¶

Accordingly, this document changes the registration procedure for the registry, as described in Section 2.¶

2. IANA Considerations

The registration procedure for the "IS-IS Neighbor Link-Attribute Bit Values" registry is changed to be "Expert Review".¶

3. Security Considerations

This document does not affect the security issues discussed in RFC 5029.¶

4. Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank John Scudder for his contributions.¶

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