Network Working Group Internet Draft B. Carpenter Document: draft-carpenter-obsolete-1888-01.txt IBM Expires: March 2005 September 2004 RFC 1888 is obsolete Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of RFC 3668. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. 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 Author's Address 3 Carpenter Expires - March 2005 [Page 1] RFC 1888 is obsolete September 2004 1.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. Carpenter Expires - March 2005 [Page 2] RFC 1888 is obsolete September 2004 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 Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the IETF's procedures with respect to rights in IETF Documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. 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