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

p.s.  Since this is in the Charter for krb-wg, I assume that the right
place for discussion, unless and until the WGs are merger, is the krb-wg
list and not the kitten one.  I am subscribed to the former but not, at
present, to the latter.

Tom Petch


----- Original Message -----
From: "t.p." <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; "Tom Yu" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 2:51 PM

> 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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