[rfc-i] Proper way to include examples with yet-to-be-assigned values?

[Joe Touch]

On 8/12/2010 2:47 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. I am co-author on a document that has examples that
> include values that we are simply guessing because they need to be
> assigned by IANA when the document becomes an RFC. That is, they come
> from a registry that (will soon be) "RFC required". We picked some
> numbers out of the air so that people could see what the rest of the
> format would look like, and put a big disclaimer at the top of the
> section with the examples.
>
> My questions:
>
> Is there a "best practices" for what to do in this situation.

Having just done this, I used:

	TBD-IANA-KIND

See:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-auth-opt-11

> Is there a good way to mark this for the RFC Editor?

I did so in the IANA Considerations section:

14. IANA Considerations

    [Paragraphs below in braces should be removed by the RFC Editor upon
    publication]

    [TCP-AO requires that IANA allocate a value from the TCP option Kind
    namespace, to be replaced for TCP-IANA-KIND throughout this
    document.]

FYI. That's how I did it. YMMV.

Joe

>
> Does the Production Center have an example of a recent-vintage Internet Draft that they thought got it just right?
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
> _______________________________________________
> rfc-interest mailing list
> rfc-interest at rfc-editor.org
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-interest