RE: LMP over UDP

[Jonathan Lang <jplang@calient.net>]

Soo-Hyun,
  I am told that this is because they don't want to run out of protocol IDs
and they only have 255 available (this is only an 8-bit field - see
http://www.iana.org/assignments/protocol-numbers).

Thanks,
Jonathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Soo-Hyun Choi [mailto:soohyunc@etri.re.kr]
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 1:02 AM
> To: Jonathan Lang; ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> Cc: sob@harvard.edu; Jonathan Lang
> Subject: Re: LMP over UDP
> 
> 
> Hi, Jonathan,
> 
> I don't understand why the IESG would reject the LMP over raw 
> IP unless you
> have a very very compelling reason.
> Could you clarify more on this?
> 
> Regards,
> Soo-Hyun Choi
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Lang" <jplang@calient.net>
> To: <ccamp@ops.ietf.org>
> Cc: <sob@harvard.edu>; "Jonathan Lang" <jplang@calient.net>
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:51 AM
> Subject: LMP over UDP
> 
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I had a discussion with Scott in Minnesota about 
> progressing LMP through
> the
> > IESG.  He had given the LMP draft a "pre-IESG" review 
> (looking for obvious
> > rejection material) and realized that it wouldn't fly as 
> LMP over raw IP -
> > they're not giving out IP protocol IDs unless you have a very very
> > compelling reason.  Instead we will run LMP over UDP, and 
> get a UDP port
> for
> > LMP from IANA.  Fixing this now will short-circuit an 
> almost certain IESG
> > rejection.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
>