At 10:13 AM 9/19/2001, Keith Moore wrote:
If it were desirable to establish a header registry, the last thing I'd
want to do is to make an update of 2076 be critical path for that effort.
These are large documents that take a long time to get right, and it's
difficult to ensure that they get adequate review.
I agree with your concern, and wondered about it when sending my earlier
note, but decided to see what reactions surfaced.
Ned's and your responses suggest that, at most, we should do the minimal
effort to create a registry, rather than tackle full-scale header
cleanup. Or, at least, they should be de-coupled.
the danger in creating such a registry is that it will be used
to legitimize certain bad practices that have been implemented with
little thought.
That is an inherent danger in any open registration environment. It has
not proved problem in any other IANA registration activities, as far as I
am aware. If there is strong enough concern, of course, we can direct IANA
to permit only those registrations that are standards track.
d/
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