--On Tuesday, June 12, 2007 08:26 -0700 Dave Crocker
<dcrocker(_at_)bbiw(_dot_)net> wrote:
I think the incremental suggestion, here, translates into
permitting the IESG to attach a comment to an IANA
registration entry, much as it can for an Independent RFC
document submission?
I think that's a pretty reasonable idea.
Yes. For this case and others, comments --especially comments
that actually say something, rather than denying knowledge or
making assertions about lack of review that aren't true --
impress me as a far better idea than denying registration or
trying to deny publication.
Again, there may be exceptions, but I think denial cases should
require fairly strong (and public) justification. In the
general case, I believe the Internet is better off if even the
most terrible of ideas is well-documents and registered --with
appropriate warnings and pointers-- if there is any appreciable
risk that it will be deployed and seen in the wild.
If we have created a registration space sufficiently small that
we are concerned that registration of parameters for bad ideas
will cause scarcity problems, then that is a problem of our
creation that we need to fix (and avoid in the future), not
something that justifies bad long-term policy.
john
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