draft-carpenter-obsolete-1888



Network Working Group                                                  
Internet Draft                                             B. Carpenter
Document: draft-carpenter-obsolete-1888-01.txt                      IBM
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                          RFC 1888 is obsolete
   
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Abstract
   
   This document recommends that RFC 1888, on OSI NSAPs and IPv6, be
   reclassified Historic as most of it has no further value, apart from
   one section which is faulty.
   
Table of Contents
   
   1. Introduction                                                   2
   2. Recommendation to reclassify RFC 1888                          2
   3. Security Considerations                                        2
   4. IANA Considerations                                            3
   5. Acknowledgements                                               3
   6. Normative References                                           3
   7. Author's Address                                               3

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1.   Introduction
   
   [RFC 1888] was published as an Experimental RFC in 1996, at an early
   stage in the development of IPv6, when it appeared important to
   consider usage of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) addressing for
   IPv6. In Sections 3 through 5, it defines mappings of certain OSI
   Network Service Access Point (NSAP) addresses inside IPv6 addresses,
   and how to carry arbitrary NSAP addresses as IPv6 destination
   options. However, it also contains significant "health warnings"
   about the difficulty of routing packets in the global Internet using
   such addresses. As far as is known to the IETF, these address
   mappings have never been seriously used and are not supported by IPv6
   implementations. Furthermore, the deployment of OSI solutions is not
   sufficiently widespread that any change in this situation can be
   expected.
   
   Additionally, Section 6 of [RFC 1888] specifies a mapping of IPv6
   addresses inside OSI NSAP addresses. This mapping has recently
   aroused some interest, for example to allow IP addresses to be
   expressed in an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) context.
   Unfortunately, Section 6 of [RFC 1888] contains two errors in its
   usage of OSI Initial Domain Part (IDP) format:
   
   * firstly by referring in the text to the Internet Code Point (ICP)
   as a single octet, whereas it is correctly a 16-bit field;
   
   * secondly by stating that "The first three octets are an IDP in
   binary format", but [NSAP] states in section A.5.2.1 that "The
   abstract syntax for the IDI is decimal digits" and specifies a
   preferred binary encoding in section A.5.3 "using a semi-octet to
   represent the value of each decimal digit ... , yielding a value in
   the range 0000-1001".
   
   
2.   Recommendation to reclassify RFC 1888

   Due to the lack of use of one of the mappings, and the errors in the
   documentation of the other one, this document recommends the IESG to
   reclassify [RFC 1888] as Historic.
   
   It is assumed that parties who wish to use a mapping of IPv6
   addresses inside OSI NSAP addresses will correct, augment, and
   resubmit Section 6 of [RFC 1888] as a separate document.
   
3.   Security Considerations
   
   This recommendation has no known impact on the security of the
   Internet.

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4.   IANA Considerations

   IANA is requested to mark the IPv6 address prefix 0000 001, reserved
   for NSAP Allocation in [RFC 3513], as simply Reserved.
   
   IANA is requested to hold the registry for ICD codes implied by
   Section 6 of [RFC 1888] in abeyance until a replacement for that
   Section is approved for publication.
   
5.   Acknowledgements
   
   Scott Brim and Arun Pandey made useful comments on this document.
   
6.   Normative References

   [RFC 1888] J. Bound, B. Carpenter, D. Harrington, J. Houldsworth, A.
   Lloyd, "OSI NSAPs and IPv6", RFC 1888, August 1996.
   
   [RFC 3513] R. Hinden, S. Deering, "Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
   Addressing Architecture", RFC 3513, April 2003.
   
   [NSAP] International Organization for Standardization, "Information
   technology -- Open Systems Interconnection -- Network service
   definition", ISO/IEC 8348:2002, 2002.
   
   
7.   Author's Address
   
      Brian E. Carpenter
      IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
      Saeumerstrasse 4 / Postfach
      8803 Rueschlikon
      Switzerland
      Email: brc@zurich.ibm.com
   
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