RE: Future Enumservice Registration Process

Bernie this is a excellent summary of the options.

Chair hat off ... I lean toward Plan B.

The registration proceeds directly to the expert review via a special email
list like we see with URI's. The expert review deals with it in a
"reasonable" time frame and forwards its report to the IESG for ultimate
approval.

>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Bernie Hoeneisen [mailto:[email protected]]
>  Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:42 AM
>  To: [email protected]
>  Subject: [Enum] Future Enumservice Registration Process
>  
>  Hi all
>  
>  *** Please comment until Wednesday, Nov 05 ***
>  
>  One major issue in draft-ietf-enum-enumservices-guide-05.txt seems to
>  be,
>  which process to apply for future Enum service registrations. I went
>  through existing similar IANA processes and found at least four
>  variants,
>  how a registration document can be processed:
>  
>    A) Author -> IESG -> Expert Review -> IESG -> IANA -> Publication
>  
>    B) Author -> Expert Review -> IESG -> IANA -> Publication
>  
>    C) Author -> IANA -> Expert Review -> IANA -> Publication
>  
>    D) Author -> IESG -> IANA -> Expert Review -> IANA -> Publication
>  
>  
>  In the current revision of draft-ietf-enum-enumservices-guide-05.txt
>  process B) is documented, however I am tending to replace it by
>  process
>  A), as this way the responsibilities are much more clear.
>  
>  In case registrations should be made without IESG looking at it, C)
>  could be the choice. Maybe for experimental Enumservice registrations
>  this
>  makes sense. If we want to apply such a simple process for normal
>  Enumservice registrations, a major change in RFC 3761 is needed, as
>  RFC 3761 states: "Enumservice registrations needs to be Standards
>  Track,
>  Experimental or BCP"
>  
>  What do you think about? In case there it no major opposition within
>  the
>  next 5 days, I'll rewrite draft-ietf-enum-enumservices-guide-06.txt in
>  favour of process A) and submit it for the Vancouver meeting.
>  
>  cheers,
>    Bernie
>  
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