RE: Has IANA gone mad?

IANA made the assignment because this document:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-msgtrk-trkstat-05.txt

was approved for publication as a Proposed Standard by the IESG on
2004-03-23 and the document is now in the RFC Editor's queue.  The IANA
actions have to be completed before the document can be finished by the RFC
Editor.

The msgtrk working group will be closed once the remaining documents (all of
which are in the RFC Editor's queue) are published as RFCs.

-Scott-
Area Advisor for MSGTRK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Lilly [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 3:43 PM
> To: ietf-msgtrk mailing list
> Subject: Has IANA gone mad?
> 
> 
> Sent to ietf-822 and ietf-msgtrk mailing lists, cc to 
> [email protected], responses default to ietf-822
> 
> Yesterday, "message/tracking-status" appeared in the IANA 
> registry for MIME message media types 
> (http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/message/).
> It lists "RFC-ietf-msgtrk-trkstat-05.txt" as the reference 
> document -- of course there is no such document.  The closest 
> existing document is a draft dated March 2003, more than a 
> year old ("Internet drafts are valid for six months").
> 
> Why on Earth did this suddenly appear yesterday?
> 
> The ietf-msgtrk mailing list appears to be dormant; in the 
> last three months the only message to appear on that mailing 
> list's archive are spam messages 
> (http://www.imc.org/ietf-msgtrk/mail-archive/maillist.html).  
> There are fewer than a dozen message in the mailing list 
> archive in the past year, spam included.
> 
> What's going on?!?
> 
>