Excellent questions. Just a guess, but if I were IANA I might start by contacting the authors; if it came from a working group, I might poll the (possibly defunct) mailing list or working group. Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways... > On Aug 1, 2020, at 12:04 PM, Timothy Mcsweeney <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Of the roughly 2,000 protocols listed on the IANA's protocol page: > > Requires IETF review: 604 > Requires Expert review: 565 > Requires specification: 570 > > Expert unassigned: 297 > > The earliest missing expert goes back to RFC1505. > How do you get an assignment where there are no experts assigned? > > And how likely are these experts to get assigned when it already seems difficult > to get meeting scribes? > > >
