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) >> >> Caution: This email originated from outside the organization. Do not click >> links >> or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is >> safe. >> >> 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. -- Gavin Brown Principal Engineer, Global Domains & Strategy Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) https://www.icann.org _______________________________________________ regext mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
