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IANA Registry for the First Nibble Following a Label Stack
draft-kbbma-mpls-1stnibble-05

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
Expired & archived
Authors Kireeti Kompella , Stewart Bryant , Matthew Bocci , Greg Mirsky , Loa Andersson
Last updated 2023-03-11
Replaced by draft-ietf-mpls-1stnibble
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Abstract

The goal of this memo is to create a new IANA registry (called the MPLS First Nibble registry) for the first nibble (4-bit field) immediately following an MPLS label stack. The memo offers a rationale for such a registry, describes how the registry should be managed, and provides some initial entries. Furthermore, this memo sets out some documentation requirements for registering new values. Finally, it provides some recommendations that makes processing MPLS packets easier and more robust. There is an important caveat on the use of this registry versus the IP version number registry. This memo, if published, would update [RFC4928] and [RFC8469].

Authors

Kireeti Kompella
Stewart Bryant
Matthew Bocci
Greg Mirsky
Loa Andersson

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