Hi All,

I've updated my ballot to reflect the v14 of the document. Thanks for
taking care of most of my previous comments.

There is only one point that I consider at a level of DISCUSS - the Change
Authority. I believe, IESG/IETF cannot be the change authority for
allocations that are being grandfathered-in from open source projects
(e.g., libpcap, tcpdump, etc.). IESG/IETF will also not like to be the
change controller for new allocations - that should be the person(s)
requesting the allocation. Refer
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8126.html#section-2.3 - someone from the
IANA team can correct me if I'm wrong.

The other non-blocking comment is that Link Type value be made the first
entry in the registry table for ease of use.

On the matter of DE guidance, this is something that I will leave to the
WG. My apologies for not being able to come up with a more concrete
suggestion for what seems to rely a lot on the DE's discretion.

Thanks,
Ketan



On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM Mahesh Jethanandani <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Looking at the list of DISCUSS, here is one thing that does not seem to
> have been addressed.
>
> Ketan’s DISCUSS comment:
>
>
>
>
>
> *2) The registry is missing the Change Controller column and filing that
> is abit tricky. I believe none of the initial allocations have the IETF as
> thechange controller since it comes from the tcpdump/pcap open source code.
> Assuch, perhaps that open source project (or the lead
> developer/maintainer(s) forit) should become the Change Controllers?*
>
> In the discussion that followed, Guy seems to have agreed that:
>
>
> *KT> Please identify the Change controllers for all the initial
> allocations.*
>
>
> *Michael, would that be just you and me, or would we also include other
> tcpdump/libpcap core developers?*
>
> Currently, the document states that the Change Controller is the IESG
> through the DE it appoints.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2025, at 2:03 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>
> Joe Clarke (jclarke) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [JMC] These changes for DE look good to me.  That said, I believe you
> have some other PR text pending for the current DISCUSS?
>
>
> I can't think of anything else.
> I think it was all taken care of already.
>
> --
> Michael Richardson <[email protected]>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
>           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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> Mahesh Jethanandani
> [email protected]
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