Re: Updating the NBD assignment at IANA

[Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>]

I have contacted IANA to request that they perform this:

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 02:43:06PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Way back in 2010, I requested a port number with IANA for NBD. They
> assigned port 10809 to it[1]. The procedure to request a port number, at
> the time, also included the requirement to provide a "description", for
> which I gave "Linux Network Block Device", and contact information of an
> "Assignee" and "Contact"; for both of these I passed myself.
> 
> Things have moved on since then, however, and I don't think all of that
> is appropriate anymore. So I would like to contact IANA to ask them to
> update the assignment:
> 
> - For the "Assignee", I would like to ask them to mention this
>   mailinglist. I am not sure whether IANA allows mailinglists with
>   public archives to be used in this manner; but according to RFC6335,
>   "The Assignee is the organization, company or individual person
>   responsible for the initial assignment," which to me means that the
>   mailinglist is most appropriate.

For this part, they replied that they felt doing that is not
appropriate:

    I do NOT recommend change to assignee as given; we can change to a
    “role based” address, but we do NOT recommend that this be a public
    list. The purpose of the assignee is not a point of contact for the
    general public; although provided in the IANA tables, it is point of
    contact for IANA.

So I left the assignee as is.

> - I'll leave the contact as is for now. RFC6335 mentions "The Contact
>   person is the responsible person for the Internet community to send
>   questions to.  This person is also authorized to submit changes on
>   behalf of the Assignee; in cases of conflict between the Assignee and
>   the Contact, the Assignee decisions take precedence," which to me
>   reads like a person is required (and I'm happy to continue filling
>   this role).
> - For the description, I would like to drop the "Linux" part in the
>   description. There are implementations of NBD that are wholly
>   unrelated to Linux, and so I don't think it's entirely accurate
>   anymore to refer to NBD as a "Linux" protocol.
> - At the time, there was no public reference for the NBD protocol yet; I
>   plan to add the link to proto.md on github as the official reference.

These two have now happened:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=10809

Thanks,

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