On 10-Sep-20 02:52, Salz, Rich wrote:
> * I'm not sure what was meant by Rich's comment about IANA being hired staff
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> They are not experts. They are hired to do administrative stuff. The things you list do not require technical expertise, but rather operational expertise. That’s not to denigrate ops, of course.
In fairness to our friends and colleagues at IANA, what they do is not just
administrative. Yes, the end product is clerical if you like - updating a very
large set of on-line registries. Yes, they take instructions from the IESG and
the designated experts. No, they don't claim to be protocol designers. But
their work is non-trivial, involves understanding and often debugging quite
complex documents, and relies on years of experience. Without them the Internet
would be an incoherent technical failure. (OK, I freely admit that it's an
incoherent technical success. :-)
Brian
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> I am a member of the TLS designated experts, so I know first-hand how expert review works.
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> So far you are the only one trying to remove it.
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