ietf-nntp IANA extension registry (was: Commetns on draft-15.pdf)

[Russ Allbery]

ned <ned+ietf-nntp at innosoft.com> writes:

> IANA registration processes are done according to whatever procedure you
> define, so in theory there would be no problem with such a registry.
> That being said, the main problem that registrations seek to solve is
> conflicting use.  Provisional registrations hurt rather than help in
> this regard, in that their entire purpose is to encourage reuse of a
> string with different syntax and semantics.

> I don't believe any other application protocol has used a provisional
> registry. Are we so short of strings that we really need this?

No, we really aren't.  I think the worry is that people won't actually
write up an RFC.  But provisional registration doesn't really solve that
problem either.  Hm.

Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I think that provisional
registration probably isn't that great of a move.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>