It seems to me that the IANA registry could provide more influence for the IETF
if run as Paul suggests.
So I go to the code page for the USELESS cipher. It tells me that the cipher
has not been approved by the IETF, has not been endorsed by any professional
bodies and is not an IETF standard.
We would at last have a mechanism to trump the usual claim that an internet
draft has been submitted so please consider me as good as being a standard.
Or another organization could run the registry.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Hoffman [mailto:paul(_dot_)hoffman(_at_)vpnc(_dot_)org]
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:46 AM
To: Pasi(_dot_)Eronen(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: IANA registration constraints (was: Re:
Withdrawing sponsorship...)
At 7:27 AM +0300 6/14/07, <Pasi(_dot_)Eronen(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com> wrote:
I think giving out codepoints freely would in many cases encourage
having multiple (often half-baked) solutions to the same problem.
This is the crux of the issue. Does the IETF want to control
bad ideas through the IETF process *and* the IANA registry,
or just the IETF process? You are proposing the former, I am
proposing the latter. I trust that the IETF process works
fine and doesn't need a backup crutch from IANA. I also trust
that developers who look in the IANA registry and see four
entries, one of which is an RFC and three of which are URLs
to individuals and corporate web sites, to be able to make
the right decision about what they want to implement.
I'm not saying that this particular cooperation would not
have happened
with less strict IANA policies -- but I do believe that if
the bar for
getting codepoints and publishing an RFC would be
significantly lower
than today, we would have a much larger number of poorly
concieved and
overlapping extensions to various IETF protocols.
Fully agree. But we're not talking about lowering the bar to
publishing RFCs, only to registering codepoints.
(And IMHO that would not always be interop-neutral.)
Why not? As long as the reader of the IANA registry can
ascertain which codepoint owner is at a particular level, how
would that affect interop?
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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