We've been talking for a while about revising 3864; it needs a lot more than 
this done.

Cheers,


On 14/02/2013, at 7:54 AM, Julian Reschke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-02-13 21:43, Yoav Nir wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 13, 2013, at 10:24 PM, Julian Reschke <[email protected]>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Well.
>>> 
>>> You make it sound as if it's ok to run two different registries with partly 
>>> overlapping values. It's not. It's a bug in the way IANA handles this. This 
>>> is what needs to be fixed.
>>> 
>>> Best regards, Julian
>> 
>> I don't want to turn this into a process debate, but having a provisional 
>> registry like this allows you to create interoperable implementations while 
>> the document is still at draft. I often see a push to get a document 
>> published because we need the IANA assignments for products.
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> Of course they could still do this with a single registry where provisional 
>> entries are somehow marked (with an asterisk?). That way we wouldn't get to 
>> a situation where we have double entries.
> 
> The key thing being that both registries share the same namespace, so, by 
> definition, an entry can not appear in both. If it does, there's a 
> process/software problem.
> 
> Of course the trivial way to do this right is to implement a *single* 
> registry, and to just store a flag for each entry.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
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