Re: NSLP Registry Question

Thanks Martin for the super quick response. 

In that case I would suggest to add the NSLP name to the different error
code registries, such as s/"Informational Error Codes"/"QoS NSLP
Informational Error Codes", etc. 


>-----Original Message-----
>From: ext Martin Stiemerling [mailto:[email protected]] 
>Sent: 18 June, 2010 10:09
>To: Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo); NSIS
>Subject: RE: [NSIS] NSLP Registry Question
>
>Hi,
>
>We have basically the following situation:
>
>The QoS and NATFW NSLP share the error classes, but have 
>different error codes. The other parameters are fine. 
>(http://www.iana.org/assignments/nslp-parameters/nslp-parameter
>s.xhtml#error-classes)
>
>I did do a instruction write-up for this and send it to IANA 
>but IANA requested better text - which I still need to provide.
>
>IANA wants specific and clear instructions what to do with error codes.
>
>Everything else is already fixed with IANA it is just to have 
>a proper write-up of the IANA instructions.
>
>I felt to clarify this.
>
>  Martin
>
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
>> Of Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo)
>> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:01 AM
>> To: NSIS
>> Subject: [NSIS] NSLP Registry Question
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> We got a question about the NATFW NSLP parameter registry from IANA, 
>> which I would like to bring forward to the group.
>> 
>> What registries are actually shared between the different NSLPs.
>> 
>> To know what I mean have a look at
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/nslp-parameters/nslp-parameters.xhtml
>> 
>> Are the following registries shared between NSLPs or not?
>> 1) NSLPs have messages
>> 2) NSLPs have objects
>> 3) NSLPs have error classes
>> 4) NSLPs have error codes (which are sub-values of error classes)
>> 
>> In the current version of the IANA registry the answer is
>> (1) No, they are not shared. Two different registries are used. The 
>> NATFW uses the "NATFW NSLP Message Types" and the QoS NSLP uses "QoS 
>> NSLP Message Types".
>> (2) Yes, they are shared, see NSLP Message Objects.
>> (3) Yes, they are shared, see NSLP Error Classes.
>> (4) That's where IANA came with a question to us because 
>they did not 
>> know what to do.
>> 
>> Here is my suggestion:
>> 
>> Ad 1) The messages have a very different semantic but putting them 
>> into the same registry probably does not hurt.
>> Ad 2) I am fine with using the same registry.
>> Ad 3) Using the same error class sounds also useful.
>> Ad 4) I believe that the error codes are so different for each NSLP 
>> that they should go into a separate registry.
>> 
>> This all assumes that only those values are used that are 
>defined for 
>> a specific NSLP and not randomly others from the same registry.
>> 
>> Do others agree with me? I would like to close this issue!
>> 
>> Ciao
>> Hannes
>> 
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