On 27. Oct 2021, at 23:06, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 26. Oct 2021, at 20:57, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Here is an example of a LINKTYPE that would be very difficult to explain if
>>> it weren't in the context of a pcap/pcapng file.
> 
>> …
>>> LINKTYPE_USB_LINUX_MMAPPED  220
>>> USB packets, beginning with a Linux USB header, as specified by the
>>> struct usbmon_packet in the Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt file in the
>> …
> 
>> Whether that is a good registry entry is for the designated expert (DE)
>> to decide, not for the IESG.
> 
> The document in question would have to establish the history of the entries.

Why are you saying this?
(Maybe I don’t parse this right.)

> The IESG will ask questions about this part.  It will happen.

Sure, I’ve seen the IESG ask questions before.
I think they will be quite sympathetic that we are doing most of the entries 
outside of IETF consensus to reduce their workload.

>> The third document would establish the registry and maybe provide a few
>> entries so the IESG has some examples to look at.
> 
> Not a few entries, all of the history of them.

What I’m trying to say is that this doesn’t have to be done in the IETF 
consensus document.

>> Loading that registry is then done via IANA and the DE.
> 
> No, that's now how it's worked in the past, and now what IANA told me.

Can’t parse.  Which of the β€œnow” are β€œnot” maybe?

The way I have proposed is exactly how a registry is run.

Grüße, Carsten

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