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Document: draft-ietf-enum-enumservices-guide-20.txt
Reviewer: Miguel Garcia <[email protected]>
Review Date: 16-June-2010
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Summary: The document is almost ready for publication as a BCP.
Major issues: none.
Minor issues:
- Section 6.5: The text reads:
IANA will conduct an "Expert Review" ...
I guess a designated expert will conduct the review. At most (specially
for non-RFC Specifications), IANA will make sure that an Expert Review
has been done.
- Section 11.6.1 discusses the process of registering Enumservices
through the publication of an RFC. I don't understand the purpose of the
second paragraph, which chances the process to IANA. The text reads:
IANA MUST only add Enumservices to the Registry, if the experts have
approved the corresponding Enumservice Specification as to be
published. IANA SHOULD attempt to resolve possible conflicts arising
from this together with the experts. In case changes between the
approved and the to be published version are substantial, IANA MAY
reject the request after consulting the experts.
My problem is related to the process. If a document has gone through the
RFC publication process, I expect that experts have inspected the
document and approved the Specification prior to publication as an RFC,
as part of a regular RFC process. This process may differ between
standard track RFCs and individual submissions, but in any case, experts
are involved in the RFC publication process, and the RFC will not be
published if experts voice against the document. Or when do the authors
expect that an Internet-Draft could be published without expert review?
So, I think that for RFCs, IANA does not need to do anything different
from what they are doing today.
Nits/editorial comments: none
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Miguel A. Garcia
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Ericsson Spain
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