* Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >By my reading, the "happiana" discussions [1] over the 12+ months have >led most participants to the conclusion that registration does not imply >standardization, and that it's not the role of the designated expert to >act as a gatekeeper with respect to the technical merits of the >technologies that trigger registration requests. My impression is the same (though I do not agree with "led"). >It might be good to have a wider discussion about the purpose of >registries and the role of designated experts, but IMHO it's not correct >to conclude that a technology is acceptable just because the designated >expert didn't object to the registrations related to that technology. I would say that decisions by designated experts have no implications outside the confines of their role and their discretion. We could give experts the power to decide over "is acceptable", but when we do not, then they do not have that power, and nobody should argue otherwise. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@xxxxxxxxxxxx · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/