On 1/19/2016 11:29 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > 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 > ground for appeal. Note that many expert reviews take a long time because of the delays caused by applicants responding to review queries, not simply the delay in the expert review side of the process. When we've had very long delays, it's often because we took many cycles to explain how port assignment worked. We can certainly shorten review times by reducing that community service, but I would hesitate to recommend that approach. Joe