On 19/01/2016 21:46, Eliot Lear wrote: ... > I also agree with Phill on one other point: it seems perfectly > reasonable that should a request for an assignment be denied, the IANA > should as a matter of course refer the applicant to RFC 5226 regarding > the right of appeal. That process is there to allow for oversight of > the designated technical expert and not to test the ability of an > applicant to find the right RFC. Emphatically +1. Also, any expert review that takes longer than, say, one month should be red-flagged in some way. RFC 5226 talks about "a few weeks" and "a reasonable period of time" but doesn't really have teeth, so it's unclear how long is too long and when a delay is itself a valid groaund for appeal. It's late in the day, but I think draft-leiba-cotton-iana-5226bis should fix that. Like: OLD: Appeals of protocol parameter registration decisions can be made using the normal IETF appeals process... NEW: Appeals against protocol parameter registration decisions and unreasonable delays in such decisions can be made using the normal IETF appeals process... Brian