And this requirement is quite new. It would be unprecedented if it hadn't
triggered some level of initial review in these very early days. But wait
a couple of years for the new to wear off and people being people will
start to handle it as more boilerplate.
For anyone who was sleeping during the relevant Psych 101 lecture, this is
called the Hawthorne effect. Doing anything at all gets folk's attention.
Whether the thing, itself, has a real effect is a very separate issue.
The IANA Considerations form requirement creates attention on the matter of
IANA. But that does not mean that it carries any long-term focus on real IANA
issues, any more than the original, vacuous requirement for a Security
Considerations section resulted in good security considerations.
What improved the security considerations work was requiring that it be real.
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