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Move RFC7954 and RFC7955 to Historic
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Document Status change Move RFC7954 and RFC7955 to Historic
Last updated 2023-10-06
Moves to Historic RFC7954, RFC7955
State Approved - announcement sent
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Responsible AD Jim Guichard
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RFC 7954 created an experimental IPv6 prefix, namely 2001:5::/32, to be used as
an Endpoint-IDentifier (EID) space for the Locator/Identifier Separation
Protocol (LISP).  The reserved address space was requested for an initial
3-year period starting in September 2016 (until September 2019), with an option
to extend it by three years (until September 2022) upon the decision of the
IETF. RFC 7955 describes a framework for the management of the prefix created
by RFC 7954. As described in RFC 7955, RIPE NCC volunteered to provide
registration service during the experiment (up to 2022 at the latest).

The initial experiment was supposed to last three years, until September 2019.
The option to extend the experiment to three more years was subject to the
requirements written in section 10 of RFC 7954:

   Following the policies outlined in
   [RFC5226], upon IETF Review, the decision should be made on whether
   to have a permanent EID block assignment by September 2019.  If no
   explicit action is taken or, if the IETF Review outcome is that it is
   not worth having a reserved prefix as a global EID space, the whole
   /32 will be taken out from the "IANA IPv6 Special-Purpose Address
   Registry" and put back in the free pool managed by IANA.

In August 2019 RIPE NCC contacted the LISP WG asking if any action was ongoing
concerning the extension of the experiment. The LISP WG concluded that very few
requests have been made during three years and there was no compelling reason
to extend the experiment. No further action has been taken by the LISP WG or
the IETF. As such, in accordance with Section 10 of RFC 7954, RIPE NCC
de-registered the existing assignments and IANA put the prefix back in the free
pool (removing the entry from
https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv6-special-registry). Such an action
did not have any impact on other existing LISP specifications, hence moving
these documents to historic status will as well have no consequences. Further,
LISP WG is working on moving experimental specifications for which sufficient
experience and deployment is available to the status of "proposed standard",
updating them as needed.

At this point, RFC 7954 and RFC 7955 refer to a prefix that does not exists
anymore and is not used by any LISP document. As such it make sense to move
both documents to the status of "HISTORIC". This note, associated with the
status change of the two RFCs will allow to keep track of the LISP EID prefix
experiment.