ACAP Registrations ACAP's usefulness comes from providing a structured storage model for all sorts of configuration data. It is very important to standardize dataset classes. The authors hope that ACAP achieves the success that SNMP has seen with the definition of numerous standards track MIBs. In the absence of standardization, it is important to get community review on a proposal to improve its engineering quality. Community review is strongly recommended prior to registration.
Registration serves a two-fold purpose.
First it prevents use of the same name for different purposes, and second it provides a one-stop list which can be used to locate existing extensions or dataset classes to prevent duplicate work. The IANA registry of these codes is listed here. Several protocols deal with multiple address families. The 16-bit assignments are listed here. The assigned values for these parameters are listed here.