Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-19 Thread t.petch
know what they were doing when they were granting us the right to use their text. Tom Petch - Original Message - From: "t.petch" To: "Lars Eggert" ; "Spencer Dawkins" Cc: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" ; "Phillip Hallam-Baker" ; ; Sent: Tues

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Eric Rosen wrote: > > Phillip> But I rather suspect that the reason that this is happening is > that > Phillip> people know full well that there is a process and choose to ignore > Phillip> it because they either can't be bothered to put up with the hassle > Phil

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: "Lars Eggert" To: "Spencer Dawkins" Cc: "Iljitsch van Beijnum" ; "Phillip Hallam-Baker" ; ; Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:02 PM On 2011-1-18, at 15:58, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > Lars can speak for himself, but what I THOUGHT he was talking was changing the

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Martin Rex
Lars Eggert wrote: > > On 2011-1-18, at 17:15, Eric Rosen wrote: > > The only way to avoid collisions > > due to "squatting" is to adopt a policy that all codepoint fields > > be large enough so that a significant number of codepoints are > > available for FCFS allocations. > > That's certainly a

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
On 2011-1-18, at 17:15, Eric Rosen wrote: > The only way to avoid collisions > due to "squatting" is to adopt a policy that all codepoint fields be large > enough so that a significant number of codepoints are available for FCFS > allocations. That's certainly a suggestion we should follow for new

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Eric Rosen
Phillip> But I rather suspect that the reason that this is happening is that Phillip> people know full well that there is a process and choose to ignore Phillip> it because they either can't be bothered to put up with the hassle Phillip> or don't think that the application will be accepted. Lars>

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On 2011-1-18, at 16:32, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > That would work IF the reason this is happening is that people don't > understand that unassigned means reserved for future assignment. that *is* the reason, for at least those cases that I have been involved in. > But I rather suspect th

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > Phillip, > > Lars can speak for himself, but what I THOUGHT he was talking was changing > the phrase "unassigned" to something like "reserved for future assignment". > > That made sense to me... > That would work IF the reason this is hap

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
> Spencer > - Original Message - > From: Phillip Hallam-Baker > To: Lars Eggert > Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum ; paul.hoff...@vpnc.org ; ietf@ietf.org > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:51 AM > Subject: Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries > > >

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On 2011-1-18, at 15:51, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >Using a term other than "unassigned" might prevent some instances of the > >latter. > > I don't see how changing the name is going to affect behavior for the > positive here. If you do succeed in confusing people as to which numbers are

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum ; paul.hoff...@vpnc.org ; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:51 AM Subject: Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, On 2011-1-17, at 1:23, Phillip Hallam-Baker wro

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: > Hi, > > On 2011-1-17, at 1:23, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > If people think that IANA is a tool they can use to impose their own > > personal political agenda on the Internet, they are mistaken. > > that isn't the point of this thread. > >

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-17 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On 2011-1-17, at 1:23, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > If people think that IANA is a tool they can use to impose their own > personal political agenda on the Internet, they are mistaken. that isn't the point of this thread. The point of IANA assignment is to avoid conflicting codepoint usage.

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-17 Thread Julian Reschke
On 17.01.2011 18:53, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Dear all, The isues discussed here is the use of unassigned values in IANA registries. And I really agree with the authors of RFC5226 that sets MUST criterion for mentioning these values. Not mentioning them will lead to misunderstanding by IANA and

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-17 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
Dear all, The isues discussed here is the use of unassigned values in IANA registries. And I really agree with the authors of RFC5226 that sets MUST criterion for mentioning these values. Not mentioning them will lead to misunderstanding by IANA and other people whether the values are avail

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-16 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 14 jan 2011, at 23:06, Martin Rex wrote: > > > Frankly, I'm actually more concerned about code assignments for > > severely IPR-impaired algorithms (e.g. Elliptic Curve related) > > than about GOST. (Admittedly, the GOST 34.10-2001

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14 jan 2011, at 23:06, Martin Rex wrote: > Frankly, I'm actually more concerned about code assignments for > severely IPR-impaired algorithms (e.g. Elliptic Curve related) > than about GOST. (Admittedly, the GOST 34.10-2001 signature > algorithm appears to use Elliptic curve math, and it's ent

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-14 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Martin Rex wrote: > Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > > > The illusion of control is comforting to some but it is an illusion. At > the > > end of the day the IETF has roughly 2000 people involved. Nobody elected > us. > > We are accountable to no-one. > > I assume

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-14 Thread Martin Rex
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > The illusion of control is comforting to some but it is an illusion. At the > end of the day the IETF has roughly 2000 people involved. Nobody elected us. > We are accountable to no-one. I assume the number of IETF contributors is more like 5000-1. > > The In

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I suggest that the IAB consider a policy for registries that requires all cryptographic and application layer code points to make use of an approved extensible identifier format, with the two approved forms being URIs and ASN.1 OIDs. -1 Not t

Re: Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-14 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
The first law of the Internet is 'You are so not in charge (for all values of you).' The illusion of control is comforting to some but it is an illusion. At the end of the day the IETF has roughly 2000 people involved. Nobody elected us. We are accountable to no-one. The Internet has 2 billi

Use of "unassigned" in IANA registries

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
On 1/14/11 12:23 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, On 2011-1-13, at 22:43, Michelle Cotton wrote: Many believe it makes it very clear to the users of the registry what is available for assignment. Something we will be rolling out soon (for those registries with a finite space) will be small charts sh