Without responding in detail to John's note, I'll say that I agree
substantially with the notion that the fact that someone manages to get
a protocol name or number registered, should not be any kind of
justification for standardization of a document that describes use of
that name or number.
(For that matter, just because a document describes "protocol data
objects" is also not a justification for standardization of that document.)
More generally, IETF standardization should not be a rubber stamp. And
to the extent that people have that notion, we would do well to
discourage it.
Keith
