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

Charles Lindsey chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk
Wed Jan 2 04:15:31 PST 2002


In <01KCK4UU4BXA002Q1H at mauve.mrochek.com> ned+ietf-nntp at innosoft.com writes:

>> I think the essence of
>> any form of "provisional" registration would have to be some mechanism for
>> dregistration for the ones that never make it. Perhaps after six months,
>> unless in the meantime there was at least an ietf draft in existence with
>> a view to an eventual RFC.

>On the contrary, the essence of such a scheme is that the string will then be
>reused in an incompatible way. If this doesn't happen there is no justification
>for ever removing anything from the registry, and hence no justification for
>provisional registrations.

Eh? Are you suggesting that if the header Foobar: is registered for use in
the protocol "Foo", but the protocol "Foo" then falls into disuse (or never
fell into use in the first place) then it should remain registered as
being associated with that protocol until such time as someone proposes a
new protocol "Baz", which just happens to incorporate a Foobar: header?

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