At 12:12 PM +1000 6/15/10, Mark Andrews wrote:
>In message <p06240867c8385b270...@[10.20.30.158]>, Paul Hoffman writes:
>> At 4:23 PM -0400 6/11/10, Derek Diget wrote:
>> >Raising hand timidly....
>>
>> In this group!? :-)
>>
>> >Instead of listing the zones in section 4 (which then will get hard
>> >coded into implementations), follow section 6 and register the zones in
>> >the new/to-be-created IANA assignment registry.  This will force
>> >implementations to go look at the assignment registry and maybe more
>> >aware of the dynamic nature of some of these zones.  As the draft is
>> >now, some implementors probably will stop reading after section 5. :(
>>
>> Good call. +1
>
>The zone listed are intended to be stable enough in usage that they
>can be frozen in code.  Zones added to the registry should be of a
>similar level of stability.  It would be a very rare event for a
>zone to be removed from the registry and it would take decades, if
>ever, that the zone would be untainted.

Probably true, but not relevant to the discussion. The idea is to force 
implementers to look at the registry so that they see *future* additions to it, 
even if they get there from reading this RFC-to-be.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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