On Friday 19 January 2007 16:39, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Greetings again. One significant change in the new draft is the
> addition in Section 7 of "In all cases, new values are assigned only
> for Standards Track RFCs approved by the IESG." This change came at
> the request of Cullen Jennings, an AD. In that request, he says "Glad
> to talk about pros and cons of this", so I am Cc'ing him on this
> thread.
>
> This change precludes IANA from registering values for IESG-approved
> Experimental RFCs, or IESG-approved independently-submitted
> Informational RFCs. Normally, "standards track only" is used in
> protocols where there is a limited-size namespace, and "RFC only" is
> used in places where namespace size is not a concern but there is a
> desire for a stable, long-lived reference for every entry in the
> namespace.
>
> Maybe we want "RFC only", not "standards track only", particularly so
> that people can create Experimental RFCs and have them be used in an
> interoperable fashion as a way of determining whether they should
> later be elevated to standards track.
>
+1  I think this would be much better.

Scott K
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