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Title : Registration Policies for the IETF and IANA
Author(s) : J. Klensin, et al.
Filename : draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy-01.txt
Pages : 15
Date : 2005-7-19
For many years, the IETF has maintained, via the IANA, registries of
protocol and parameter names and numbers. The primary purpose of
these registries is to ensure that different methods and options are
properly identified and distinguished. Registration of such names or
numbers generally does not necessarily imply approval of the
technology in the corresponding protocol. Instead, registration
represents the desire to keep choices distinctly identified,
separated, and public to avoid conflicts in use. In recent years,
various changes in the nature of the instructions given to the IANA,
increased perceptions of scarcity in the number spaces associated
with some of the parameters, and other issues have led to a shift in
emphasis from "registration to keep identifiers unique" toward
evaluations of the quality of proposals for and preferences among
protocols. This document argues that shift is undesirable. It
articulates and clarifies the principles that the reasons for
evaluation of registration requests is to ensure a minimum quality of
definition, that any assertions of scarcity to restrict registrations
must be accompanied by a plan for evaluating and, if appropriate,
eliminating the scarcity problem, and that, if a "no scarcity" plan
is not possible, to establish criteria for making decisions that are
as specific and objective as possible.
This document is intended to update the general considerations of RFC
2434, the specific allocation rules of RFC 2780, and the evaluation
criteria associated with other documents that condition an IANA
registration on Expert Review with IESG oversight or on IESG or IETF
action.
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