On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:34:41AM -0700, IESG Secretary <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 28 lines which said: > The IEEE Registration Authority (IEEE RA) assigns Ethertypes I suggest it would be a good idea to have the stable URL of the statement <http://www.ietf.org/iesg/statement/ethertypes.html> *in* the announcement. Sometimes, people read the mail announcement after some forwarding and may want to check the authoritative source.