Hi Amanda, Thanks for that clarification.
Michael/Guy, I would suggest the easiest way to proceed is that one of you (or anyone else involved from the projects involved) becomes the Change Controller for the actual registered entries in the initial allocation - basically you become the registrants. For further requests, the DEs would enter the registrant(s) as the change controllers for their respective entries. Amanda, do you see an issue with this or do you have a better suggestion? Once that is done, this is ready to ship. Thanks, Ketan On Wed, Nov 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM Amanda Baber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ketan, all, > > > > There is a change controller problem here, and we missed it: > > > > - There is only one point that I consider at a level of DISCUSS - the > Change Authority. I believe, IESG/IETF cannot be the change authority for > allocations that are being grandfathered-in from open source projects > (e.g., libpcap, tcpdump, etc.). IESG/IETF will also not like to be the > change controller for new allocations - that should be the person(s) > requesting the allocation. Refer > https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8126.html#section-2.3 > [rfc-editor.org] > > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8126.html*section-2.3__;Iw!!PtGJab4!-rcIQUYpAGbosO98EMqHbchbNHHU552vt6oHLE4003sMu0OSVQD0Kh_NyDhJQ9VmvGxNKF6BcpEFSIwZH30wS134HOA1$> > - someone from the IANA team can correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > I don’t actually know what the criteria are for listing a party other than > the IETF as the change controller for registrations made by an IETF-stream > RFC. It happens, but RFC 8126 (which calls the IETF the “default” here) > doesn’t talk about when it can/should. > > > > Section 2.3 of RFC 8126 talks about change control for the registry > itself, which would cover, e.g., updating its registration procedures or > adding an extra column. These changes would require an IETF-stream RFC, so > we wouldn’t expect the experts to have a change control role. > > > > For the actual registrations: I agree, we would expect that the > registrants would be the change controllers. The expert’s role is to > approve change requests initiated/authorized by the change controller. (The > exception being contact updates, which IANA typically verifies without > bringing in the experts, unless there’s some issue we need them to advise > on.) > > > > Thanks, > > Amanda > > >
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