On 12.01.2011 15:22, Adrian Farrel wrote:
Entirely at random I clicked on:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/aaa-parameters/aaa-parameters.xhtml
http://www.iana.org/assignments/calipso/calipso.xhtml
http://www.iana.org/assignments/lmp-parameters
Looks like IANA tries to fill up all the blanks with markers of "unassigned".
Is that harmful?
Minimally, it's redundant. Also, it only makes sense on certain types of
registries.
I just checked the XML version of the first registry, and, indeed, it
contains entries for unassigned values. /me shakes head in disbelief.
What *should* be done is computing the unassigned ranges for
*presentation*; that is, they should not be part of the actual registry.
The way it's done currently defeats one of the reasons of having a
machine-readable registry (consumers will have to hard-wire knowledge of
the specific "unassigned" entry to make sense of the registry).
Best regards, Julian
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