On 19/01/2016 21:46, Eliot Lear wrote:
...
I also agree with Phill on one other point: it seems perfectly
reasonable that should a request for an assignment be denied, the IANA
should as a matter of course refer the applicant to RFC 5226 regarding
the right of appeal. That process is there to allow for oversight of
the designated technical expert and not to test the ability of an
applicant to find the right RFC.
Emphatically +1.
Also, any expert review that takes longer than, say, one month should
be red-flagged in some way. RFC 5226 talks about "a few weeks" and
"a reasonable period of time" but doesn't really have teeth, so
it's unclear how long is too long and when a delay is itself a valid
groaund for appeal.
It's late in the day, but I think draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis
should fix that. Like:
OLD:
Appeals of protocol parameter registration decisions can be made
using the normal IETF appeals process...
NEW:
Appeals against protocol parameter registration decisions and
unreasonable delays in such decisions can be made using the normal
IETF appeals process...
Brian