Subject: [ippm] Upcoming request for EtherType allocation

From: "Brian Weis (bew)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 10:17:01 +0000

Hi Spencer,

As discussed in today’s IPPM WG meeting, we are expecting in the future to request publication of an Internet-Draft that requires a new EtherType to to be allocated. You mentioned that this might be an interesting topic for this week’s IETF/IEEE 802 meeting, and so I’m passing on the following notes.

We would request an EtherType for it "In-situ OAM (IOAM)” (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-weis-ippm-ioam-eth-00). We understand that there is a process for IANA to request this from the IEEE 802, and have put this into our IANA Considerations section.  Additionally, we had an early private exchange with some members of the IEEE 802 RAC (the entity that performs the allocation), who gave advice to make sure we only ask for one EtherType of this purpose, and we’ve followed that advice. I don’t expect any issues with defining the EtherType we need, but if you’d like to check with them that would be great.

Thanks,
Brian