Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) L. Andersson Request for Comments: 7214 Huawei Updates: 5586, 6374, 6378, 6427, 6428 C. Pignataro Category: Standards Track Cisco ISSN: 2070-1721 May 2014Moving Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) IANA Registries to a New Registry
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1. Introduction
RFC 5586 generalized the PW-ACH into the G-ACh. However, registries and allocations of G-ACh namespaces had been distributed throughout different registries. This document coalesces these into a new "Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) Parameters" registry in the "Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (MPLS)" name space. This reorganization achieves two purposes: it allocates the G-ACh registries in their natural place in the MPLS names space, and it provides a single view of the G-ACh registries, to simplify future assignments and avoid potential conflicts. This is an update to RFC 5586 [RFC5586]. Further, the "Pseudowire Associated Channel Types" registry is renamed to "Generalized Associated Channel (G-ACh) Types (including Pseudowire Associated Channel Types)" to make its generalized status explicit, and it is moved into the newly created registry.
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Additionally, RFC 6374 [RFC6374], RFC 6378 [RFC6378], RFC 6427 [RFC6427], and RFC 6428 [RFC6428] specify allocations within the G-ACh that are now moved into the new registry.
2. IANA Considerations
IANA has added this document as a reference for each registry that has been moved or renamed as a result of actions requested by this document.
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RFC 7214 Creating G-ACh registries May 2014 2.3. Consolidating G-ACh RegistriesThis document further updates the following RFCs by moving the registries related to G-ACh to the common "Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) Parameters" registry created in Section 2.1.
3. RFC Updates
This document updates [RFC5586] renaming the "Pseudowire Associated Channel Types" [IANA-PWE3] to "MPLS Generalized Associated Channel (G-ACh) Types (including Pseudowire Associated Channel Types)". This document also updates the following RFCs by moving the G-ACh related registries to a common "MPLS Generic Associated Channel (G-ACh) Parameters" registry: RFCs 6374, 6378, 6427, and 6428.
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All the registries listed above are moved without any changes to their content. The reason to move them is to create on single place where it is possible to find all the G-ACh parameters.
4. Security Considerations
The IANA instructions in this document do not directly introduce any new security issues.
5. Acknowledgements
The authors want to thank Amanda Baber and Scott Bradner for review and valuable comments.6. References 6.1. Normative References[RFC5586] Bocci, M., Vigoureux, M., and S. Bryant, "MPLS Generic
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RFC 7214 Creating G-ACh registries May 2014 6.2. Informative References[IANA-LSP-Ping]
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