Why not use the no downref rule? And RFC annotated create a registry that it would not be qualified to register under? Seems obvious to me. Joe > On Nov 25, 2023, at 12:58 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2023-11-25, at 09:39, Joe Touch <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> Of course, the IESG can veto RFCs in certain streams; my next search will be for any IESG statements about registry creation in RFCs that are not standards-track or BCP. >> >> RFC 8126 > > I’ve heard about BCP26 :-) > > Unfortunately, this appears to give no guidance at all as to which RFC streams and categories can *create* registries. > (It does address which documents can *register* under which policies once a registry has been created with such a policy.) > > Grüße, Carsten >