Technical Summary
This document specifies a method for allocation of "Standards
Action" IANA registries in situations where it may be necessary
to allocate a code point before publication. It is intended to
be used in cases where implementation and deployment experience
is desired or required prior to publication
Working Group Summary
This document is not the product of a working group. However,
it was discussed in the routing area and widely socialized by
the authors before its submission.
Protocol Quality
Bill Fenner reviewed this specification for the IESG.
RFC-Editor Note:
In the second paragraph of section 1, please change:
OLD:
  To break the deadlock, "pre-RFC" implementations simply choose some
 code points
NEW:
 To break the deadlock, "pre-RFC" implementations have sometimes
 simply chosen some "seemingly unused" code points;