On 1/19/2016 11:29 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
On 19/01/2016 21:46, Eliot Lear wrote:
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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
ground for appeal.
Note that many expert reviews take a long time because of the delays
caused by applicants responding to review queries, not simply the delay
in the expert review side of the process.
When we've had very long delays, it's often because we took many cycles
to explain how port assignment worked. We can certainly shorten review
times by reducing that community service, but I would hesitate to
recommend that approach.
Joe