[171581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US patent 5473599
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Tue May 6 15:38:11 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPKkNb4yCvquRO20B0FeB-x6zWn8AkK+tPBahAPrjz0pLWb8gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 12:31:38 -0700
To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Constantine,
On May 6, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>>>>> As a final note of course, when we petitioned IANA, the IETF body =
regulating "official" internet protocol numbers, to give us numbers for =
CARP and pfsync our request was denied. Apparently we had failed to go =
through an official standards organization.
Yes. The 8-bit IP protocol field is assigned by IANA according to "IESG =
Approval or Standards Action".=20
>>>>> Consequently we were forced to choose a protocol number which =
would not conflict with anything else of value, and decided to place =
CARP at IP protocol 112.
Protocol 112 was assigned by IANA for VRRP in 1998.
When did OpenBSD choose to squat on 112?=20
>>>>> We also placed pfsync at an open and unused number. We informed =
IANA of these decisions, but they declined to reply.
I would imagine the reply was "IANA does not have discretion to assign =
those values, they are assigned by IESG or via a standards action." =
Indeed, IP protocol 240 is not yet allocated. Presumably the OpenBSD =
community expects everyone else to acknowledge the squatting on 240.
> Frankly, I don't really see what the huge loss is. =20
Not surprising.=20
> Perhaps people
> should realise that OpenBSD has recently removed The Heartbeat
> Extension from TLS in libssl, and boycott the upcoming LibreSSL, since
> its likelihood of having another heartbleed has been so reduced, yet
> the API is still compatible with OpenSSL. ???
Sorry, the relationship between OpenBSD developers intentionally and =
childishly squatting on a protocol number and OpenBSD developers hacking =
apart OpenSSL is what exactly?
Regards,
-drc
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