Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 16:52:20 -0700
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)brandenburg(_dot_)com>
>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.
I would much prefer an open registry, since it is the best way to
avoid name conflicts and show what's out there. A registry doesn't
bless a particular entry, it just prevents accidental collision.
We could suggest some sort of Vendor-Foo- prefixes to make such things
even clearer---but I'd much rather have a registry that shows what's
in existence than one that merely shows standards track stuff (and
thus is perpetually out of date even with internet drafts).
Larry