John, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:01:26AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > Interestingly, a few mechanisms for handling that sort of > narrative and organizing information were extensively discussed > several years ago. Thanks for this. Do you know whether any of this got as far as being written in an I-D, or was it just a discussion? I'll go trolling for expired I-Ds if I know they might be out there. Another idea that's been floating around has simply been to put up a wiki to support all of this, and do it all as a kind of non-normative support function. What worries me about that is the (IMO strong) chance that such a wiki would be badly maintained, but would gain currency because of its convenience. But maybe that doesn't matter too much: if we can't be bothered to maintain such a resource, then either making our stuff easy to use isn't important to us, or we don't actually care about conformance as much as we say we do, or both. > If your "broad outline" describes the problem you and Olafur are > trying to solve, I suggest that overloading the information into > IANA registries is the wrong solution, independent of whether > the particular choices of words, etc., are correct. Just to be clear, I'm responding to all of this without a hat. I had no input to the writing of the draft, though I've read it. I do have a problem in the WG I co-chair with Olafur, though, so I'm primarily interested in solving that. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf