Re: Proposed Standards and Expert Review

Without responding in detail to John's note, I'll say that I agree 
substantially with the notion that the fact that someone manages to get 
a protocol name or number registered, should not be any kind of 
justification for standardization of a document that describes use of 
that name or number.
(For that matter, just because a document describes "protocol data 
objects" is also not a justification for standardization of that document.)
More generally, IETF standardization should not be a rubber stamp.   And 
to the extent that people have that notion, we would do well to 
discourage it.
Keith