16. IANA Considerations

16. IANA Considerations

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has created a new registry for the "Route Distinguisher Type Field" (see Section 4.2). This is a two-byte field. Types 0, 1, and 2 are defined by this document. Additional Route Distinguisher Type Field values with a high-order bit of 0 may be allocated by IANA on a "First Come, First Served" basis [IANA]. Values with a high-order bit of 1 may be allocated by IANA based on "IETF consensus" [IANA].

This document specifies (see Section 4.3.4) the use of the BGP Address Family Identifier (AFI) value 1, along with the BGP Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) value 128, to represent the address family "VPN-IPv4 Labeled Addresses", which is defined in this document.

The use of AFI value 1 for IP is as currently specified in the IANA registry "Address Family Identifier", so IANA need take no action with respect to it.

The SAFI value 128 was originally specified as "Private Use" in the IANA "Subsequent Address Family Identifier" registry. IANA has changed the SAFI value 128 from "private use" to "MPLS-labeled VPN address".