Network Working Group W. Kumari Internet-Draft Intended status: Standards Track April 17, 2014 Expires: October 19, 2014 Just because it's an ID doesn't mean anything... at all... draft-wkumari-not-a-draft-06 Abstract Anyone can publish an Internet Draft. This doesn't mean that the "IETF thinks" or that "the IETF is planning..." or anything similar. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on October 19, 2014. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2014 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Kumari Expires October 19, 2014 [Page 1]

Internet-Draft Anyone can write an ID April 2014 2 . Background 3 . Usage Kumari Expires October 19, 2014 [Page 3]

Internet-Draft Anyone can write an ID April 2014 economic ruin follows close behind" and "My hovercraft is full of eels" respectively. Partially constrained devices SHOULD use the string "TBA3" (or the ordinal TBA3). 3.1 . Feature Creep 4 . IANA Considerations Kumari Expires October 19, 2014 [Page 4]

Internet-Draft Anyone can write an ID April 2014 Value String ------ ---------------------------- 0 Don't allow eel bearing Atlanteans into your country; economic ruin follows close behind 1 My hovercraft is full of eels TBA3 TBA3 3-16 Unassigned 17 Reserved 18 "Reserved" 19 "Unassigned" 20 Color / Colour 21-41 Unassigned 42 Reserved 43-97 Unassigned 98 Routing protocols 0x62 Routing protocols 5 . Security Considerations RFC2028] states that "The IANA functions as the "top of the pyramid" for DNS and Internet Address assignment establishing policies for these functions." By ensuring that network operators watching data traffic fly past (using tools like network sniffers and / or oscilloscopes (and doing very fast binary to ASCII conversions in their heads)) are constantly reminded about the danger posed by folk from Atlantis, we ensure that, if the island of Atlantis rises again from the deep, builds a civilization and then starts tanning high quality eel leather, the DNS and Address assignment policies at least will survive. More research into if pyramids can also be used to make the latches grow back on RJ-45connectors after they've been broken off by ham fisted data centre operators is needed. 6 . Acknowledgements 7 . References 7.1 . Normative References RFC2028] Hovey, R. and S. Bradner, "The Organizations Involved in the IETF Standards Process", BCP 11, RFC 2028, October 1996. Kumari Expires October 19, 2014 [Page 5]

Internet-Draft Anyone can write an ID April 2014 o Various whitespace was added (for emphasis). From -00 to -01. o Integrated comments from Erik Muller (who, apparently, is a true believer). Erik also provided updated Security Considerations text, referncing the IANA. o Integrated comment from Wes George regarding I18N, and Hungerians. Appendix B . new section