Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-registry-fixes-08.txt> (Applicability Statement: DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm IANA Registry) to Proposed Standard

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On 5/26/11 10:22 AM, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the DNS Extensions WG (dnsext) to
consider the following document:
- 'Applicability Statement: DNS Security (DNSSEC) DNSKEY Algorithm IANA
    Registry'
   <draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-registry-fixes-08.txt>  as a Proposed Standard

The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action.

Speaking as individual, not AD.

The document says in section 2.1:

2.1.  Updates and Additions

   This document updates three entries in the Domain Name System
   Security (DNSSEC) Algorithm Registry.  They are:

   The description for assignment number 4 is changed to "Reserved until
   2020".

   The description for assignment number 9 is changed to "Reserved until
   2020".

   The description for assignment number 11 is changed to "Reserved
   until 2020".

OK, I give up....What happens in the year 2020? The end of the Mayan calendar? Another prediction of the coming apocalypse? Oprah will return?

Without the jokes: I find "due dates" in standards completely ridiculous, without any purpose, and object strongly to them. I cannot see what the dates add to the reservation of these code points, and there is no explanation of dates (let alone these *particular* dates) in the draft. These either need to be explained in excruciating detail or removed.

   Registry entries 13-251 remains Unassigned.

That would be a surprise, since the current registry at

<http://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-sec-alg-numbers/dns-sec-alg-numbers.xml>

says:

13-122    Unassigned
123-251    Reserved                [RFC6014][standards track]

This document makes a change to 123-251. That either needs justification in the document or needs to be reverted.

In my (personal) opinion, this document is not ready for publication in its current form.

pr

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