The IESG is responsible for assigining experts. When IANA gets a request for allocation from a registry that currently lacks an expert (or the assigned expert is non-responsive), IANA asks the IESG to assign a new expert or experts. Usually IANA also asks for experts for newly created registries, but it doesn't always happen right away. -Ben On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 01:40:56PM -0700, Fred Baker wrote: > 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? > > > > > > >
