--On Tuesday, June 12, 2007 08:26 -0700 Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think the incremental suggestion, here, translates into permitting the IESG to attach a comment to an IANA registration entry, much as it can for an Independent RFC document submission? I think that's a pretty reasonable idea.
Yes. For this case and others, comments --especially comments that actually say something, rather than denying knowledge or making assertions about lack of review that aren't true -- impress me as a far better idea than denying registration or trying to deny publication.
Again, there may be exceptions, but I think denial cases should require fairly strong (and public) justification. In the general case, I believe the Internet is better off if even the most terrible of ideas is well-documents and registered --with appropriate warnings and pointers-- if there is any appreciable risk that it will be deployed and seen in the wild.
If we have created a registration space sufficiently small that we are concerned that registration of parameters for bad ideas will cause scarcity problems, then that is a problem of our creation that we need to fix (and avoid in the future), not something that justifies bad long-term policy.
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