> Dear Phillip, > There is a motivation you forgot. It is to take control of > your particular > part of the world in using the IANA to lodge your vision > and/or your name. > Like a micro TLD Manager. Folk greatly overestimate the effectiveness of IANA as a control point. Why does the IESG think that it is a good idea to make it difficult to get SRV prefix assignments? They should be assigned automatically. There is no shortage of SRV prefixes, there is a finite number of TCP/IP port numbers. It makes absolutely no sense to make folk grovel and submit an RFC and get it through the IESG just to get a prefix assigned. I didn't do this for my non IETF protocols, I just made the prefixes up myself. The chance of an accidental collision is infintesimal and could be eliminated entirely if the allocation process was made sane. Nobody is going to tread on my prefixes for the good reason that if they do their protocol will break. Same goes for DNS RR assignments, if a breakaway group wants a new RR and the IANA refuses, what happens next? If someone decides they are going to use RR 42 and start doing so on any extended scale nobody else will want it - not unless RRs become a scarce resource. I come from a culture where the foundation myth consists of strange women lying around in ponds distributing swords. Authority is a myth that only has substance as long as people agree to believe in it. > This goes beyond impressing your commercial/political > relations in having > signed an RFC in their area - what you quote as the second > motivation. You > become a permanent acknowledged part of the core of the Internet > metastructure. A part of the Internet Nobility. A new Larry > Robert, Doug > Engelbart, Louis Pouzin, Jon Postel, Vint Cerf .... > jfc Yes, but those people are all known for innovating and producing 'stuff'. Getting your name on an RFC does not make you Vint Cerf. Becoming chair of the IETF does not make you Vint Cerf either. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf