Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-kitten-kerberos-iana-registries-00.txt

The IANA Considerations in this I-D looks rather thin for a document
that is setting up an IANA registry, while for the rest of the document,
I find myself overwhelmed by
detail, lacking an overview, a framework into which to put things.

A registry usually has
- Name, unique within the IANA namespace
- Administratrive restrictions
- Technical restrictions
- Initial contents
and at least the first, I would expect to see under IANA Considerations,
with that same name appearing in the rest of the document.  The rest of
information may then be in that section or else be pointed to from that
section.

Here I see
"This document requests that IANA create several registries for
   Kebreros protocol parameters.  "

Reading the rest of the document, with each registry being identified by
a prefix (in practice, one, two or more prefixes) it would seem that
some nine or so registries are being placed under IANA, with the initial
contents coming, in several cases, from section 7 of RFC4120.

Um, sounds like a bottom-up design, a possible recipe for confusion.

Tom Petch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Yu" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 1:22 AM

> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:52:22 -0700
> Cc: [email protected]
>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
>  This draft is a work item of the Common Authentication Technology
Next Generation Working Group of the IETF.
>
> Title           : Move Kerberos protocol parameter registries to IANA
> Author(s)       : Tom Yu
> Filename        : draft-ietf-kitten-kerberos-iana-registries-00.txt
> Pages           : 6
> Date            : 2012-10-15
>
> Abstract:
>    The Keberos 5 network authentication protocol has several numeric
>    protocol parameters.  Most of these parameters are not currently
>    under IANA maintenance.  This document requests that IANA take over
>    the maintenance of the remainder of these Kerberos parameters.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-kitten-kerberos-iana-registr
ies
>
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
>
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-kitten-kerberos-iana-registries-00
>
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/


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