[ih] Protocol numbers (was IP version 7)

[Andrew G. Malis]

Jack,

An email to iana at iana.org would be a great place to start (rather than to
this list). If they have any questions, they'll consult the IESG for
guidance.

Cheers,
Andy


On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 2:21 PM Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 12/22/20 6:04 PM, John Gilmore via Internet-history wrote:
> > Could anybody who is reading this list, who at one point got a protocol
> > number assigned, please check if it can be released?
> Apparently I still "own" protocol 15 for XNET.   That happened sometime
> in the 80s, when in a fit of organization I decided to write down the
> details of the XNET protocol as more people got involved.  I was at BBN
> at the time.
>
> The IANA lists me for protocol 15, with my email address as
> jhaverty at oracle.com.   That update probably occurred when I got some
> other numbers assigned by IANA for database traffic (IIRC, port
> numbers); it was easy, just a phone call to Jon Postel.  But my Oracle
> address hasn't worked for the last 20+ years, so no one can contact me.
>
> I've said this before, but again I hereby release protocol 15 (aka XNET)
> and personally have no further use for it.   Also any port numbers which
> may still be assigned to me.  However, these are a "quitclaim" releases,
> since I have no idea who else may still be using these numbers.
>
> From a larger view, IMHO the Internet "governance" (IANA et al) have
> released thousands of RFCs and assigned hundreds of numbers, but don't
> seem to have any mechanisms to track how such things, i.e., numbers or
> protocols, are actually used in the operational Internet.  So it's not
> clear to me how to "release" anything....
>
> /Jack Haverty
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