Re: IANA Considerations

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On Jun 8, 2005, at 14:23, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
On Wednesday, June 08, 2005 01:59:19 PM -0400 Bruce Lilly <blilly@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Evidently (and unfortunately) the
IETF Secretariat apparently doesn't enforce that part of the ID-Checklist
rules.

Aside from making sure the proper boilerplate is included in documents it publishes (which it pretty much has to do for legal reasons), the IETF secretariat generally does not check submitted I-D's for conformance with standards for submissions. To do otherwise would not only be expensive and slow down the I-D submission process considerably; it would also interfere with the IETF process.

True... but something like "has an IANA Considerations section" is easy to check, and easy for the author to implement, even if it's just starting with an I-D template that says "to be determined" or "author should fill this in" or "author promises to take the RFC Editor out for a pancake breakfast if this text is submitted for publication as an RFC".

Internet-Drafts are works-in-progress; it is not necessary or even desirable that every I-D be in a form suitable for submission to the IESG before being added to the repository.

Also true. But there is a different requirements list for I-Ds than for RFCs. If something shouldn't be required for I-D submission, then it shouldn't be on that list. Evidently someone thought that IANA Considerations should be in every I-D submission. Now, perhaps the requirements list should be changed. I'm inclined to say not, in this case; the "null" IANA Considerations section (as opposed to not having one, or the pancake-breakfast template above) does imply that the author has actually thought about it and concluded that IANA doesn't need to do anything.

Ken


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