Hi Med, Kent,

I apologize for missing this. 

In the 4.30.3 note about creating names, a replacement like this might be 
better for IANA:

OLD: (e.g., "3des-cbc" will be "triple-des-cbc" (Section 6.3 of [RFC4253]))

NEW: (e.g., "3des-cbc" will be "triple-des-cbc" (Section 6.3 of [RFC4253]); 
"6to4" will be "sixToFour")

The "6to4"/"sixToFour" example is taken from the iana-if-type module, published 
in Section 2 of RFC 7224.

The reasoning here is that the note says that "the procedure MUST detail how 
IANA can generate legal identifiers from such a name." 

Because we're being told that this is an example of an IANA Considerations 
section providing sufficient detail for future registrations, it would be 
helpful for us if the note were to acknowledge, at least implicitly, that 
future authors may not be able to supply a single naming pattern that we can 
always apply automatically.

The missing piece of information here, I think, is that IANA operations staff 
didn't know (and, in the future, may not know again) that "3des" is pronounced 
"triple-des." As such, it's possible for us to read the current example and 
wonder whether IANA is being told to replace any leading number in an 
identifier with a multiplicative. 

thanks,
Amanda

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