Hi Barry,

Thanks for the quick reply and for addressing my comment. 

> Should IETF consensus be to accept a registration
> from an Informational document, that's fine.
> Perhaps it's not likely, but that'd be up to the consensus of the IETF, which 
> is
> the point here.

I am fine with this approach but this is not what the text of the 
'motivational' part of the Internet-Draft says. Currently there is an 
a-synchronism between the text that explains what the I-D tries to do and the 
action it recommends. 

Regards,

Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Barry Leiba
> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 4:26 PM
> To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
> Cc: General Area Review Team; draft-leiba-netmod-regpolicy-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Gen-ART Review of draft-leiba-netmod-regpolicy-update-01
> 
> > The problem is that the “IETF Review” policy is not restricted to
> > Experimental RFCs which seems to be the motivation of the document.
> > Informational RFCs can also be subject to IETF Review for example. The
> > IANA Considerations section does either instruct IANA to consider only
> > Standards Track and Experimental RFCs. I believe that this needs to be
> > clarified in Section 2, and the registry be marked “IETF Review – see
> > [RFC XXXX]” so that people asking for allocation be directed to the
> clarification of the policy.
> 
> I believe that no clarification is needed.  There's no reason at all to put
> restrictions on registrations beyond what IETF consensus is at the time the
> registration is requested.  Should IETF consensus be to accept a registration
> from an Informational document, that's fine.
> Perhaps it's not likely, but that'd be up to the consensus of the IETF, which 
> is
> the point here.
> 
> The non-normative text you cite describes what prompted us to do this.
> The normative text is the description of IETF Review in BCP 26.
> 
> Barry


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