Hi Ketan, all,

 

There is a change controller problem here, and we missed it:

 
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 [rfc-editor.org] - 
someone from the IANA team can correct me if I'm wrong.
 

I don’t actually know what the criteria are for listing a party other than the 
IETF as the change controller for registrations made by an IETF-stream RFC. It 
happens, but RFC 8126 (which calls the IETF the “default” here) doesn’t talk 
about when it can/should.

 

Section 2.3 of RFC 8126 talks about change control for the registry itself, 
which would cover, e.g., updating its registration procedures or adding an 
extra column. These changes would require an IETF-stream RFC, so we wouldn’t 
expect the experts to have a change control role.

 

For the actual registrations: I agree, we would expect that the registrants 
would be the change controllers. The expert’s role is to approve change 
requests initiated/authorized by the change controller. (The exception being 
contact updates, which IANA typically verifies without bringing in the experts, 
unless there’s some issue we need them to advise on.) 

 

Thanks,

Amanda

 

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