Technical Summary
When experimenting with or extending protocols, it is often necessary
to use some sort of protocol number or constant in order to actually
test or experiment with the new function, even when testing in a
closed environment. This document reserves some ranges of numbers
for experimentation purposes in specific protocols where the need to
support experimentation has been identified, and describes the
numbers that have already been reserved by other documents.
Working Group Summary
This document is an individual submission. It has been reviewed by
the INT area mailing list and updated based on discussion on that
list.
Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed for the IESG by Margaret Wasserman
and Jari Arkko.
Note to RFC Editor
Add the following paragraph at the beginning of the Security
Considerations section:
Production networks do not necessarily support the use
of experimental code points in IP headers. The network
scope of support for experimental values should be
carefully evaluated before deploying any experiment
across extended network domains, such as the public
Internet. The potential to disrupt the stable operation
of the network hosting the experiment through the use
of unsupported experimental code points is a serious
consideration when planning an experiment using such
code points.