Re: Documenting rules for the Private Enterprise Numbers registry: draft-liang-iana-pen-00

Alexey,

First of all, I appreciate your draft, which wants to formalize the PEN 
allocation process.
One comment below.
> Hi,
> Benoit suggested that I post this email message here.
>
> draft-liang-iana-pen is trying to formalize and document rules for the 
> Private Enterprise Numbers registry 
> <http://www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers>. In particular 
> the purpose of this document is to document
> a) what is allowed to be registered (what characters should be allowed 
> in an Enterprise name, what is an Enterprise)
> b) under what conditions an entry can be changed and what kind of 
> documentation is required.
>
> The document is being worked on by IANA (Pearl with some help from 
> Michelle), I was asked to help out. While the document is mostly 
> documenting existing practice, it is also trying to specify some rules 
> about how the registry is to be operated, because certain (most?) 
> things were never written down.
>
> Pearl and I will appreciate reviews and feedback on the document. One 
> of the major issues is currently outstanding is "what is considered to 
> be an Enterprise?". While Universities and non profit organizations 
> are considered Enterprises, it is not very clear whether different 
> departments of a University, or subsidiaries of the same bank in 
> different countries are considered to be different enterprises or not. 
> A more difficult case is whether to allow different products from the 
> same vendor to be allocated different PENs.
> Yet another example is allocation of special PENs for RFCs (e.g. RFC 
> 5103.html, section  6.1). Is this Ok?
Since you discuss PENs, that would great to have some more guidelines on 
how the PENs should and _should not_ be used. So this RFC5103 example 
should be discussed.

Regards, Benoit.
> (All of these are examples of what people asked to register.) As 
> currently there is no guidelines, there is no way for IANA to say "no".
>
> Somewhat related to this: another position might be that there are 
> enough PENs for everyone and that there is really no need to be 
> restrictive in the case of this registry.
>
> Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Alexey
>
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