Hi Scott,

> On 6 Nov 2025, at 12:25, Hollenbeck, Scott 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: James Galvin <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 4:41 PM
>> To: Hollenbeck, Scott <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Gould, James <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected];
>> [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [regext] WG Last Call: 
>> draft-ietf-regext-ext-registry-
>> epp-00 (Ends 2025-10-27)
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>> Having been reflecting on this further there is one element for which I would
>> appreciate some additional discussion.
>> 
>>> We want to update the draft to explicitly disallow the registration of 
>>> Internet-
>> Drafts or other "works in progress". Reference specifications should be
>> considered "final", though they can be updated using the change process
>> described in the draft.
>> 
>> This concerns me because it seems to suggest that implementations of early
>> versions of a final specification would be prevented from being able to
>> “register” a specification.
>> 
>> Is this intended (which I don’t think I could support) or am I 
>> misunderstanding
>> something?
> 
> [SAH] Jim, the issue with trying to register an Internet-Draft is described 
> here:
> 
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/regext/lP6AqBTfkHwOb9Wx0HT2EGgSbsE/
> 
> In  short, we can't register drafts AND require URI registration in the IETF 
> XML Registry. Maybe we can be creative and add the URIs to the EPP extension 
> registry so they don't have to be added to the XML registry.

Perhaps we could stop using urn:ietf: URIs in Internet-Drafts. This is 
something I suggested in Madrid:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/123/materials/slides-123-regext-review-of-the-epp-extension-registry-01#page=8

G.

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Gavin Brown
Principal Engineer, Global Domains & Strategy
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

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