On Jan 23, 2007, at 4:39 PM, John Levine wrote:
Remember that the point of the registry is primarily to prevent
namespace collisions.
I don't really agree with this - if this is the only point, you don't
need a registry - you only need to have people do something like
prepend the name with a domain name that the author of specification
controls. Or use a GUID. Or any number of things.
The reason we are using registries here is to define what the
standardization process is to make significant changes and update to
this protocol.
One other note - The IESG does not approve the RFC editor RFCs but
only checks for conflicts with the IETF process - it's complicated to
explain but you can read about it in RFC 3932.
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