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Re: Last Call: <draft-housley-number-registries-02.txt> (Internet Numbers Registries) to Informational RFC

2014-01-25 09:15:39
SM:

At 14:34 16-12-2013, Russ Housley wrote:
This document tells which registries have policy set by the RIRs.  The 
special-purpose values are exceptions, and that is why they are named in 
this document.

[snip]

Again, these are saying that exceptions require IETF Review, but otherwise 
the policy for these registries is handled by the RIRs.

Thanks for the reply.  I read draft-housley-number-registries-02 again.  The 
"which registries have policy set ..." would be the following text:

 "The allocation and registration functions for all non-reserved
  globally unique unicast IPv4/IPv6 unicast addresses are handled by the
  Internet Numbers Registry System in accordance with policies
  developed by the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)."

The special-propose values are already discussed in RFC 6890.  Section 2.2 of 
that RFC mentions that:

 'IANA will update the aforementioned registries as requested in the
  "IANA Considerations" section of a document that has passed IETF
  Review [RFC5226].'

My reading of the above is that it says that exceptions require IETF Review.  
I read Section 3 of RFC 7020:

 "In addition, ICANN performs the IANA services related to the IP
  address space and AS numbers according to global number resource
  policies that have been developed by the community and formalized
  under a Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the Regional
  Internet Registries [ASOMOU] and documented in [ICANNv4], [ICANNv6],
  and [ICANNASN]."

That text covers the policy angle.

The Introduction section of the draft mentions "IANA registries".  The quoted 
paragraph of the reply mentioned that the "document tells which registries 
have policy ...".  It is difficult to understand what the draft is about.

Regards,
-sm 

Thanks for your comments.  I have changed section 1 and section 2 to address 
them.  Here is the updated text:

1.  Introduction

   In accordance with the IETF-IANA Memorandum of Understanding
   [RFC2860], RFC 7020 [RFC7020] provides information about the Internet
   Numbers Registry System and how it is used in the distribution of
   autonomous system (AS) numbers and globally unique unicast Internet
   Protocol (IP) address space.

   This companion document identifies the IANA registries that are part
   of the Internet Numbers Registry System at this time.

2.  Internet Numbers Registries

   Three IANA registries are associated with the Internet Numbers
   Registry System: AS Numbers, unicast IPv4 Addresses, and unicast IPv6
   Addresses.  However, in each case, there are special-purpose values,
   and those special-purpose values are outside the Internet Numbers
   Registry System.

Russ



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