SM: > At 14:34 16-12-2013, Russ Housley wrote: >> This document tells which registries have policy set by the RIRs. The special-purpose values are exceptions, and that is why they are named in this document. > > [snip] > >> Again, these are saying that exceptions require IETF Review, but otherwise the policy for these registries is handled by the RIRs. > > Thanks for the reply. I read draft-housley-number-registries-02 again. The "which registries have policy set ..." would be the following text: > > "The allocation and registration functions for all non-reserved > globally unique unicast IPv4/IPv6 unicast addresses are handled by the > Internet Numbers Registry System in accordance with policies > developed by the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs)." > > The special-propose values are already discussed in RFC 6890. Section 2.2 of that RFC mentions that: > > 'IANA will update the aforementioned registries as requested in the > "IANA Considerations" section of a document that has passed IETF > Review [RFC5226].' > > My reading of the above is that it says that exceptions require IETF Review. I read Section 3 of RFC 7020: > > "In addition, ICANN performs the IANA services related to the IP > address space and AS numbers according to global number resource > policies that have been developed by the community and formalized > under a Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the Regional > Internet Registries [ASOMOU] and documented in [ICANNv4], [ICANNv6], > and [ICANNASN]." > > That text covers the policy angle. > > The Introduction section of the draft mentions "IANA registries". The quoted paragraph of the reply mentioned that the "document tells which registries have policy ...". It is difficult to understand what the draft is about. > > Regards, > -sm Thanks for your comments. I have changed section 1 and section 2 to address them. Here is the updated text: 1. Introduction In accordance with the IETF-IANA Memorandum of Understanding [RFC2860], RFC 7020 [RFC7020] provides information about the Internet Numbers Registry System and how it is used in the distribution of autonomous system (AS) numbers and globally unique unicast Internet Protocol (IP) address space. This companion document identifies the IANA registries that are part of the Internet Numbers Registry System at this time. 2. Internet Numbers Registries Three IANA registries are associated with the Internet Numbers Registry System: AS Numbers, unicast IPv4 Addresses, and unicast IPv6 Addresses. However, in each case, there are special-purpose values, and those special-purpose values are outside the Internet Numbers Registry System. Russ