(Please see previous discussion at
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lwip/eTH8zXdP0xASswZnl9u6rKp75ms>)

On 2021-02-17, at 12:43, John Mattsson 
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I personally see no need to change the status of this document to standards 
> track. If a 3 byte COSE identifiers are unacceptable it seems better to write 
> a short standards track COSE draft for that part and publish the rest as 
> informational.

None of this is a hard show-stopper, but I fear that we are setting ourselves 
up for the wrong signaling here.

By limiting 1 to 255 (1+0 and 1+1-byte) to “Standards Action”, we made it hard 
for Informational Documents to allocate these code points.  Security Area 
specifications are often Informational though.  

We don’t want to create “second class” specifications by giving them 1+2-byte 
identifiers only, just because the habit in the Security area is to mark 
certain specifications as informational.  

We also don’t want to insert the thought into the heads of protocol designers 
that they need to avoid sending these identifiers at all because some important 
specifications only got 1+2-byte identifiers.

Hmm, how do we fix this.  

(1) We could ask IESG to do a variance here.  We could support that with a 
formal consensus call in COSE.

(2) We could write a short WG document changing this into a “IETF Review” with 
some admonition that the DE should be consulted.

Section 4.8 of RFC 8126 says:

   Examples:

      IPSECKEY Algorithm Types [RFC4025]
      TLS Extension Types [RFC5246]

So we are in good companionship with this.

But I don’t want to create another obstacle for lwig-curve-representations now, 
so maybe we could do 1 *and* 2.

Let’s decide this later today.

Grüße, Carsten

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