Cullen, there's a lot of history with port registrations. As you're probably aware in the past, there was a procedure for experts to sign an NDA before reviewing port requests. It's my understanding that is no longer done. However, it does suggest there's strong desire for proprietary protocol support. So, there's lots of complexity specific to this registry here that I don't know about. However, the general idea of having experts reviews on a public list, or even soliciting comments on a public list is well supported. There's specific discussion of this in RFC 5226. We've done it successfully in a number of cases. So, there's reason to believe that things in this space could be effective for IANA registries. I think soliciting public comments on port requests would be bad; I think your proposal of having the request/response be published would be as far as we should go for this registry at this time. So, I don't have the background to say this would be a good fit for the port registry, but to the extent that my background supports something like this I can support your idea. It's worked elsewhere at lesat. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf