BCOP appeals numbering scheme -- feedback requested

["Yardiel D. Fuentes" <yardiel () gmail com>]

Hello NANOGers,

The  NANOG BCOP committee is currently considering strategies on how to best create a numbering scheme for the BCOP 
appeals. As we all know, most public technical references (IETF, etc) have numbers to clarify references. The goal is 
for NANOG BCOPs to follow some sort of same style.

The BCOP committee is looking for feedback and comments on this topic.

Currently, the below numbering scheme is being considered:

A proposed numbering scheme can be based on how the appeals appeals in the BCOP topics are presented as shown below:

http://bcop.nanog.org/index.php/Appeals

In the above page, the idea is to introduce a 100-th range for each category and as the BCOPs. This way a 100th number 
range generally identifies each of the categories we currently have. An example is:

BCP Range               Area of Practice
100 - 199               EBGPs                   
200 - 299               IGPs
300 - 399               Ethernet
400 - 499               Class of Service
500 - 599               Network Information Processing
600 - 699               Security
700 - 799               MPLS
800 - 899               Generalized

An arguable objection could be that the range is limited...but a counter-argument is that considering more than 100 
BCOPs would be either a great success or just a sign of failure for the NANOG community ...

Comments or Thoughts ?


Yardiel Fuentes