On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. Right. The requirement for null IANA Considerations sections first appeared in the May 2004 version of http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html, without prior notice to the community. > RFC2434bis does discuss them, and we will need to form consensus > about whether the RFC Editor is required to retain them, as we > discuss RFC2434bis. Which we need to do fairly soon. In what venue will this discussion take place? While I can understand the value (to the IANA) of a null IANA Considerations section in an Internet Draft, I'm strongly opposed to having them appear in published documents. Mike Heard _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf