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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt> (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-27 19:11:24


On 1/27/2011 12:52 AM, Lars Eggert wrote:
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Small Issue #3: I object to anonymous review

The current review is anonymous and this draft does not seem to change that. I 
don't like anonymous review - it's not how we do things at IETF and it 
encourages really bad behavior. I have several emails with an expert reviewer 
relayed via IANA where the conversation was going no where - once I knew the 
name of the reviewer, the whole conversation changed and stuff quickly came 
back to the realm of sane. I'm not willing to forward these emails to the list 
as that would just not be kind to anyone but I am happy to forward them to the 
IESG if they think looking at them is really critical.

I can see your point, and I personally have no problem with disclosing the 
reviewer identity. What do others think?

AFAICT, the experts team reports to IANA. We make recommendations to them. They are the ones who have the conversation with the applicant. They can take our advice or not - that's their decision.

I.e., we are advisors to IANA.

Further, many requests are handled my multiple reviewers.

Many of us do have specific conversations with applicants, and identify ourselves when that happens, but it doesn't seem important to codify that in this doc.

Again, this doc is about the unification of the registries. It is NOT about all the other policies that govern them. The info that's there is advisory ONLY (it is not binding to IANA).

Joe
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